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Autore: |
Sarfatti Tamar
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Titolo: |
The description of Egypt from Napoleon to Champollion / / Tamar Sarfatti
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Pubblicazione: | Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022] |
©2022 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (305 pages) |
Disciplina: | 930 |
Soggetto topico: | Antiquities |
Soggetto geografico: | Egypt Antiquities |
Egypt Description and travel | |
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. | |
Titolo autorizzato: | The Description of Egypt from Napoleon to Champollion ![]() |
ISBN: | 9783031156069 |
9783031156052 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910633932203321 |
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