New translation of Comte de Gobineau’s studies of Iran and Asia: Comte de Gobineau and Orientalism: Selected Eastern Writings (ed. Geoffrey Nash, trans Daniel O’Donoghue)
Joseph Arthur Comte de Gobineau (July 14, 1816 — October 13, 1882) was a French diplomat, novelist historian and theorist of racial inequality who was one of the earliest Europeans to chronicle the events of Babi history within a few decades of their happening. Gobineau in turn influenced and inspired historians, orientalists and philologists in Europe including […]