Defines our understanding of colonialism and empire.

Based on his 1993 Reith Lectures, Said's essays explore what it means to be an intellectual today. He argues that the intellectual's role is to represent a message or view not only to, but for, a public, and to do so as an outsider - someone who cannot be co-opted by a government or corporation.

Edward Said experienced both British and American imperialism as the old Arab order crumbled in the late forties and early fifties. This account of his early life reveals the influences that have formed his books, Orientalism and Culture and Imperialism .

The collected works of Edward Said on literary and cultural topics from over three decades. As the essay title shows, Said's own exile and the fate of the Palestinians have given form to the questions he has pursued.

A fascinating collection of interviews with Edward Said, foremost thinker of our times

Noted sociologist Michael Mann argues that the new American imperialism is actually a new militarism that will bring disaster to the US and the world.