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Add to basketRoutledge, London, 2012. First edition. In-8, xiv & 223 pages. Original softcover, a fine copy. From the library of Egyptologist Charles Cornell Van Siclen III (VSX). Contents: 1. Two hundred years of ancient Egypt: modern history and ancient archaeology / David Jeffreys -- 2. Imperialist appropriations of Egyptian Obelisks / Fe…kri A. Hassan -- 3. Art and antiquities for government's sake / Morris L. Bierbrier -- 4. "Purveyor-general to the hieroglyphics": Sir William Gell and the development of Egyptology / Jason Thompson -- 5. Some Egyptological sidelights on the Egyptian war of 1882 / David M. Dixon -- 6. Forgers, scholars, and international prestige: ancient Egypt and Spain / Jose_-R. Pérez-Accino and Covadonga Sevilla Cueva (French translated by Daniel Antoine and Lawrence Stewart Owens) -- 7. 'Trans-Atlantic pyramidology', orientalism, and empire: ancient Egypt and the 19th century archaeological experience of Mesoamerica / Isabel Medina-González -- 8. Egypt and the diffusion of culture / Timothy Champion -- 9. Approaching the peasantry of Greco-Roman Egypt: from Rostovtzeff to rhetoric / Jane Rowlandson -- 10. The British and the Copts / Mary Horbury -- 11. Ancient Egypt and the archaeology of the disenfranchised / Sandra A. Scham -- 12. Forgetting the Ancien Régime: republican values and the study of the ancient Orient / David Wengrow. Language: English. This book ships from the USA, shipping costs will be updated accordingly (TXR). Relevant subjec. Rts: Egypt: Travelers & Egyptologists.
