Introduction: Playing Eastern
Capitalism and the Arabian nights, 1790-1892
Ex Oriente Lux : playing Eastern for a living, 1838-1875
Wise men of the East and the market for American fraternalism, 1850-1892
Arab athleticism and the exoticization of the American dream, 1870-1920
Making the familiar strange : the racial politics of Eastern exotic, 1893-1929
Eastern femininities for modern women, 1893-1930
Turbans and capitalism, 1893-1930
Sign of promise : African Americans and Eastern personae in the Great Depression.