Views of ancient Egypt since Napoleon Bonaparte : imperialism, colonialism and modern appropriations
History
XVI, 223 Seiten : Illustrationen.
9781844720019, 1844720012
237862733
| Series Editor's Foreword | v | ||
| Contributors | ix | ||
| List of Figures | xiii | ||
| 1 Introduction - Two Hundred Years of Ancient Egypt: Modern History and Ancient Archaeology | 1 | (18) | |
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| 2 Imperialist Appropriations of Egyptian Obelisks | 19 | (50) | |
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| 3 Art and Antiquities for Government's Sake | 69 | (8) | |
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| 4 "Purveyor-General to the Hieroglyphics": Sir William Gell and the Development of Egyptology | 77 | (10) | |
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| 5 Some Egyptological Sidelights on the Egyptian War of 1882 | 87 | (8) | |
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| 6 Forgers, Scholars and International Prestige: Ancient Egypt and Spain | 95 | (12) | |
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| 7 'Trans-Atlantic Pyramidology', Orientalistu, and Empire: Ancient Egypt and the 19th Century Archaeological Experience of Mesoamerica | 107 | (20) | |
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| 8 Egypt and the Diffusion of Culture | 127 | (20) | |
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| 9 Approaching the Peasantry of Greco-Roman Egypt: from Rostovtzeff to Rhetoric | 147 | (6) | |
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| 10 The British and the Copts | 153 | (18) | |
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| 11 Ancient Egypt and the Archaeology of the Disenfranchised | 171 | (8) | |
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| 12 Forgetting the Ancient R��gime: Republican Values and the Study of the Ancient Orient | 179 | (16) | |
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| References | 195 | (22) | |
| Index | 217 |