Autore	Wendelin Marcus Friedrich <1584-1652.>
Pubbl/distr/stampa	[Cantabrigiae], : Ed officina Rogeri Danielis ..., MDCXLVII [1648]
Descrizione fisica	[20], 72, [6] p
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	lat
Record Nr.	UNISA-996386843803316

Autore	Wilson Susan L (Susan Louise), <1947->
Edizione	[[4th ed.].]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Tarrytown, N.Y., : Marshall Cavendish, 2011
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (357 p.)
Disciplina	962
Collana	Culture shock
Soggetto topico	Etiquette - Egypt
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	981-4484-77-6 981-4346-83-7
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; DEDICATION; MAP OF EGYPT; FIRST IMPRESSIONS CHAPTER 1; A TOUR OF EGYPT CHAPTER 2; THE EGYPTIAN PEOPLE CHAPTER 3; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS CHAPTER 4; Photo Section; THE LOGISTICS OF SETTLING IN CHAPTER 5; FOOD AND ENTERTAINING CHAPTER 6; ENJOYING EGYPT CHAPTER 7; COMMUNICATING EGYPTIAN STYLE CHAPTER 8; BUSINESS CHAPTER 9; EGYPT AT A GLANCE CHAPTER 10; Photo Section; CULTURE QUIZ; DO'S AND DON'TS; GLOSSARY; RESOURCE GUIDE; FURTHER READING; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; INDEX
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910456300103321

Autore	Leask Nigel <1958->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Oxford ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2002
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (x, 338 p. ) : ill. ;
Disciplina	820.9/355
Soggetto topico	Travelers' writings, English - History and criticism English prose literature - 19th century - History and criticism English prose literature - 18th century - History and criticism British - Foreign countries - History Travel writing - History Antiquities in literature Curiosity in literature Travel in literature Aesthetics, British
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-280-44669-2 0-19-155439-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910455972903321

Autore	Sarfatti Tamar
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (305 pages)
Disciplina	930
Collana	War, culture and society, 1750-1850
Soggetto topico	Antiquities
ISBN	9783031156069 9783031156052
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
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.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910633932203321

Edizione	[2nd ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Petaluma, Calif., : World Trade Press, c1993-2010 [2010]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (30 p.)
Disciplina	301.2
Soggetto topico	Women - Egypt
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-60780-342-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910458186703321