The Description of Egypt from Napoleon to ...

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

Tamar Sarfatti is an independent scholar, based in the UK and Israel.

Zusammenfassung

Offers a nuanced view of revolutionary France and its colonial aspirations

Connects the birth of the 'mission civilisatrice' to the country's political and intellectual history

Discusses Edward Said's concept of Orientalism and the problems of its use within historical research

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Fachbereich:	Regionalgeschichte
Genre:	Geschichte
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Reihe:	War, Culture and Society, 1750¿1850
Inhalt:	xiv 296 S. 18 s/w Illustr. 296 p. 18 illus.
ISBN-13:	9783031156052
ISBN-10:	3031156056
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Sarfatti, Tamar
Auflage:	1st ed. 2022
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing Springer International Publishing AG War, Culture and Society, 1750¿1850
Maße:	216 x 153 x 22 mm
Von/Mit:	Tamar Sarfatti
Erscheinungsdatum:	02.12.2022
Gewicht:	0,518 kg

Artikel-ID: 122451782