1.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991002401449707536

Autore

Caprara, Gian Vittorio

Titolo

Indicatori della capacità di adattamento sociale in età evolutiva : manuale / Gian Vittorio Caprara [... et al.]

ISBN

8809400496

Descrizione fisica

35 p. ; 24 cm ; + questionari, 2 fogli di notazione

Disciplina

155.93

Soggetti

Test psicologici

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910633932203321

Autore

Sarfatti Tamar

Titolo

The Description of Egypt from Napoleon to Champollion / / by Tamar Sarfatti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022

ISBN

9783031156069

9783031156052

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 pages)

Collana

War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850, , 2634-6702

Disciplina

930

962.03

Soggetti

France - History

Middle East - History

Imperialism

Civilization - History

Books - History

History of France

History of the Middle East

Imperialism and Colonialism

Cultural History

History of the Book



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. An Eighteenth-Century Common Reader: Napoleon Bonaparte -- 3. Colonial Policies and Revolutionary Ideas -- 4. A Short History of the Making of the Description of Egypt -- 5. Literary Genres and Scholarly Traditions -- 6. Engineer Training in Eighteenth-Century France: “From the World of More or Less to the Universe of Precision” -- 7. Egypt Engraved -- 8. Texts About Ancient Egypt and Their Predecessors -- 9. Describing Modern Egyptian Society -- 10. Jomard and Champollion: A Rivalry at the Birth of Egyptology -- 11. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is the first study in English of the multi-volume set of texts and engravings of the Description of Egypt, a work produced following the three-year-long Egyptian campaign led by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1798. The book challenges the conventional and rather reductive interpretation of the Description that followed Edward Said's Orientalism, as a summation of an orientalist colonial project. It re-centres the Description in the much more complex and dynamic political and intellectual world of France of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century and its colonial aspirations. It follows closely the notes, texts, and illustrations of the contributors to the work, the majority of whom were graduates of the first years of the Polytechnic school in Paris, and the well-documented editing process that continued for almost thirty years, in which France moved from Revolution to Empire and Restoration. It shows the ways in which scholarly traditions and newly acquired skills interplay with Enlightenment texts, contemporary politics, and received ideas about antiquity, and how these were reinterpreted and modified – in texts and illustrations – through the encounter with the physical and social worlds of Ottoman Egypt. Using the rich repository of the Description of Egypt the book demonstrates the contribution of antiquarian methods of research to the emerging disciplines of the social sciences. Tamar Sarfatti is an independent scholar, based in the UK and Israel.