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Views of ancient Egypt since Napoleon Bonaparte : imperialism, colonialism and modern appropriations

Addresses some of the main themes of the study of Egypt during the 19th and 20th centuries. In a combination of case studies and discursive chapters, the status of Egypt as an important example of traditional Orientalist scholarship, and as an ancient model of imperialism itself, is examined.
Print Book, English, 2003
UCL Press, London, 2003
History
XVI, 223 Seiten : Illustrationen.
9781844720019, 1844720012
237862733
Governments Sake; 'Purveyor-General to the Hieroglyphics': Sir William Gell and the development of Egyptology; Sarah Belzoni and her Mummy: the beginnings of the Egyptological collections at Brussels; Some Egyptology Sidelights on the Egyptian War of 1882; Forgers,Scholars and International Prestige: Ancient Egypt and Iberia; Trans-Atlantic Pyramidology, Orientalism and Empire: Ancient Egypt and the 19th century archaeological experience of Mesoamerica; Egypt and the Diffusion of Culture; Approaching the Peasantry of Greco-Roman Egypt: from Rostovtzeff to rhetoric; The British and the Copts; Egypt and the Archaeology of the Disenfranchised; Forgetting the Ancien Rgime: republican values and the study of the ancient Orient.