The description of Egypt from Napoleon to Champollion / / Tamar Sarfatti

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910633932203321
• Autore: Sarfatti Tamar
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022]; ©2022
• ISBN: 9783031156069; 9783031156052
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 pages)
• Collana: War, culture and society, 1750-1850
• Disciplina: 930
• Soggetti: Antiquities; Egypt Antiquities; Egypt Description and travel
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: An Eighteenth-Century Ordinary Reader: Napoleon Bonaparte -- From Corsican Patriot to French Republican: A Brief Overview -- Bonaparte and Abbé Raynal -- Egypt -- Early Readings and Late Practices -- Chapter 3: Colonial Policies and Revolutionary Ideas -- Chapter 4: A Short History of the Making of the Description of Egypt -- Collecting the Material: Egypt -- The Library of the Egyptian Institute -- In France -- Visions for the Published Work -- The Editorial Committee at Work -- Chapter 5: Literary Genres and Scholarly Traditions -- Between the Description of Egypt and Travel Literature -- Vivant Denon's Description of Egypt -- Geography and Geographical Engineers in Eighteenth-Century France -- The Geographical Engineers in Egypt: Jomard and His Textual Maps -- Between the Description of Egypt and a Geographical Treatise -- Chapter 6: Engineer Training in Eighteenth-Century France: "From the World of More or Less to the Universe of Precision" -- From the World of More or Less to the Universe of Precision -- Gaspard Monge: A Short Biography -- Some Notes About Descriptive Geometry -- Training Engineers in France Before the Polytechnic School -- The ; Polytechnic School: A Very Brief History -- A Common Vocabulary -- Chapter 7: Egypt Engraved -- Nicolas-Jacques Conté: Engraving Egyptian Landscape -- Architects and Engineers Documenting Egypt -- Polytechnic Graduates: Archaeology avant-la-lettre -- André Dutertre: Landscape, People and Ruins -- Chapter 8: Texts About Ancient Egypt and Their Predecessors -- Jomard, Herodotus and the Labyrinth of Egypt -- Prosper Jollois and Edouard de Villiers Facing Egyptian Antiquities -- Chapter 9: Describing Modern Egyptian Society -- Bedouins, Hebrews and an Engineer-Philosophe's Views of Biblical Stories.; Chabrol de Volvic: An Engineer-Statistician Faces Egyptian Social Realities -- Chapter 10: Jomard and Champollion: A Rivalry at the Birth of Egyptology -- The Egyptologist Debate: The Zodiac -- The Egyptologist Debate: The Hieroglyphs -- Jomard and Champollion: A Difference of Character and of Approach to Scholarship -- The Egyptian Museum and the Struggle for Authority over Ancient Egypt -- The Antiquarian and the Egyptologist -- Chapter 11: Conclusion -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.