03942nam 2200457 450 991063393220332120230406053615.09783031156069(electronic bk.)9783031156052(MiAaPQ)EBC7151144(Au-PeEL)EBL7151144(CKB)25510437200041(EXLCZ)992551043720004120230406d2022 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe description of Egypt from Napoleon to Champollion /Tamar SarfattiCham, Switzerland :Palgrave Macmillan,[2022]©20221 online resource (305 pages)War, culture and society, 1750-1850Print version: Sarfatti, Tamar The Description of Egypt from Napoleon to Champollion Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031156052 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.War, culture and society, 1750-1850.AntiquitiesEgyptAntiquitiesEgyptDescription and travelAntiquities.930Sarfatti Tamar1271420MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910633932203321The Description of Egypt from Napoleon to Champollion2995199UNINA