Views of ancient Egypt since Napoleon Bonaparte : imperialism, colonialism and modern appropriations /
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| Imprint: | London : UCL Press, 2003. |
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| Description: | xvi, 223 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Encounters with ancient Egypt |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5036698 |
Table of Contents:
- Series Editor's Foreword
- Contributors
- List of Figures
- 1. Introduction--Two Hundred Years of Ancient Egypt: Modern History and Ancient Archaeology
- 2. Imperialist Appropriations of Egyptian Obelisks
- 3. Art and Antiquities for Government's Sake
- 4. "Purveyor-General to the Hieroglyphics": Sir William Gell and the Development of Egyptology
- 5. Some Egyptological Sidelights on the Egyptian War of 1882
- 6. Forgers, Scholars and International Prestige: Ancient Egypt and Spain
- 7. 'Trans-Atlantic Pyramidology', Orientalism, and Empire: Ancient Egypt and the 19th Century Archaeological Experience of Mesoamerica
- 8. Egypt and the Diffusion of Culture
- 9. Approaching the Peasantry of Greco-Roman Egypt: from Rostovtzeff to Rhetoric
- 10. The British and the Copts
- 11. Ancient Egypt and the Archaeology of the Disenfranchised
- 12. Forgetting the Ancien Regime: Republican Values and the Study of the Ancient Orient
- References
- Index
