| Description |
xvi, 223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Encounters with ancient Egypt
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Encounters with ancient Egypt (London, England)
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| 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 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-216) and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Egypt -- Historiography.
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Egypt. |
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Historiography. |
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Egypt -- History -- To 640 A.D.
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 640 A.D |
| Subject |
Imperialism.
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Imperialism. |
| Added Author |
Jeffreys, D. G. (David G.)
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| ISBN |
1844720012 |
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