Labeling the East
Labeling the East
Where did Africa end? When were you really East in the 19th century? Geographic delineations are the result of a variety of historical legacies, physical realities, imagined ethnicities. This chapter uses nomenclature as a means to understand the cluster of representations related to the geography of the Orient from a British perspective. It considers geographical constructs of the intermediate East that predated the invention of the "Middle East". It also explores how Palestine was labeled and defined in the mid-19th century.
Keywords: critical toponymy, metageography, boundaries of Palestine, Palestine Exploration Fund, Charles Warren, place names of Palestine
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