LEADER 03942nam 2200457 450 001 9910633932203321 005 20230406053615.0 010 $a9783031156069$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031156052 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7151144 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7151144 035 $a(CKB)25510437200041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9925510437200041 100 $a20230406d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe description of Egypt from Napoleon to Champollion /$fTamar Sarfatti 210 1$aCham, Switzerland :$cPalgrave Macmillan,$d[2022] 210 4$d©2022 215 $a1 online resource (305 pages) 225 1 $aWar, culture and society, 1750-1850 311 08$aPrint version: Sarfatti, Tamar The Description of Egypt from Napoleon to Champollion Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031156052 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- 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. 327 $aChabrol de Volvic: An Engineer-Statistician Faces Egyptian Social Realities -- Chapter 10: Jomard and Champollion: A Rivalry at the Birth of Egyptology -- The Egyptologist Debate: The Zodiac -- The Egyptologist Debate: The Hieroglyphs -- Jomard and Champollion: A Difference of Character and of Approach to Scholarship -- The Egyptian Museum and the Struggle for Authority over Ancient Egypt -- The Antiquarian and the Egyptologist -- Chapter 11: Conclusion -- Selected Bibliography -- Index. 410 0$aWar, culture and society, 1750-1850. 606 $aAntiquities 607 $aEgypt$xAntiquities 607 $aEgypt$xDescription and travel 615 0$aAntiquities. 676 $a930 700 $aSarfatti$b Tamar$01271420 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910633932203321 996 $aThe Description of Egypt from Napoleon to Champollion$92995199 997 $aUNINA