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Views of ancient Egypt since Napoleon Bonaparte : imperialism, colonialism and modern appropriations / edited by David Jeffreys.

Title: Views of ancient Egypt since Napoleon Bonaparte : imperialism, colonialism and modern appropriations / edited by David Jeffreys.
Publication: London : UCL Press ; Portland, Or. : Cavendish Pub., 2003.

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Additional Authors

Jeffreys, D. G. (David G.)

Description

xvi, 223 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Encounters with ancient Egypt

Uniform Title

Encounters with ancient Egypt (London, England)

Subject

Genre/Form

History

Note

"Series of 8 books derives from the proceedings of a conference entitled 'Encounters with Ancient Egypt', held at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London in December 2000"--Editor's foreword.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-216) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

1. Two hundred years of ancient Egypt: modern history and ancient archaeology / David Jeffreys -- 2. Imperialist appropriations of Egyptian Obelisks / Fekri A. Hassan -- 3. Art and antiquities for government's sake / Morris L. Bierbrier -- 4. "Purveyor-general to the hieroglyphics": Sir William Gell and the development of Egyptology / Jason Thompson -- 5. Some Egyptological sidelights on the Egyptian war of 1882 / David M. Dixon -- 6. Forgers, scholars, and international prestige: ancient Egypt and Spain / José-R. Pérez-Accino and Covadonga Sevilla Cueva (French translated by Daniel Antoine and Lawrence Stewart Owens) -- 7. 'Trans-Atlantic pyramidology', orientalism, and empire: ancient Egypt and the 19th century archaeological experience of Mesoamerica / Isabel Medina-González -- 8. Egypt and the diffusion of culture / Timothy Champion -- 9. Approaching the peasantry of Greco-Roman Egypt: from Rostovtzeff to rhetoric / Jane Rowlandson -- 10. The British and the Copts / Mary Horbury -- 11. Ancient Egypt and the archaeology of the disenfranchised / Sandra A. Scham -- 12. Forgetting the Ancien Régime: republican values and the study of the ancient Orient / David Wengrow.

ISBN

1844720012

OCLC

51993964
SCSB-11344853

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Harvard Library