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The Description of Egypt from Napoleon to Champollion

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正題名/作者:	The Description of Egypt from Napoleon to Champollion/ by Tamar Sarfatti.
作者:	Sarfatti, Tamar.
面頁冊數:	XIV, 296 p. 18 illus.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
標題:	History of the Book. -
電子資源:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15606-9
ISBN:	9783031156069

The Description of Egypt from Napoleon to Champollion
Sarfatti, Tamar.

The Description of Egypt from Napoleon to Champollion[electronic resource] /by Tamar Sarfatti. - 1st ed. 2022. - XIV, 296 p. 18 illus.online resource. - War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850,2634-6702. - War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850,.

1. Introduction -- 2. An Eighteenth-Century Common Reader: Napoleon Bonaparte -- 3. Colonial Policies and Revolutionary Ideas -- 4. A Short History of the Making of the Description of Egypt -- 5. Literary Genres and Scholarly Traditions -- 6. Engineer Training in Eighteenth-Century France: “From the World of More or Less to the Universe of Precision” -- 7. Egypt Engraved -- 8. Texts About Ancient Egypt and Their Predecessors -- 9. Describing Modern Egyptian Society -- 10. Jomard and Champollion: A Rivalry at the Birth of Egyptology -- 11. Conclusion.

This book is the first study in English of the multi-volume set of texts and engravings of the Description of Egypt, a work produced following the three-year-long Egyptian campaign led by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1798. The book challenges the conventional and rather reductive interpretation of the Description that followed Edward Said's Orientalism, as a summation of an orientalist colonial project. It re-centres the Description in the much more complex and dynamic political and intellectual world of France of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century and its colonial aspirations. It follows closely the notes, texts, and illustrations of the contributors to the work, the majority of whom were graduates of the first years of the Polytechnic school in Paris, and the well-documented editing process that continued for almost thirty years, in which France moved from Revolution to Empire and Restoration. It shows the ways in which scholarly traditions and newly acquired skills interplay with Enlightenment texts, contemporary politics, and received ideas about antiquity, and how these were reinterpreted and modified – in texts and illustrations – through the encounter with the physical and social worlds of Ottoman Egypt. Using the rich repository of the Description of Egypt the book demonstrates the contribution of antiquarian methods of research to the emerging disciplines of the social sciences. Tamar Sarfatti is an independent scholar, based in the UK and Israel.

ISBN: 9783031156069

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-15606-9doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1110545
History of the Book.

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Dewey Class. No.: 944

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