Billie Melman

Empires of Antiquities

Modernity and the Rediscovery of the Ancient Near East, 1914-1950

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Produktbeschreibung

A history of the rediscovery of the imperial civilizations of the ancient Near East in a modern imperial order that evolved in the early twentieth century, which explores how near eastern antiquity was redefined and experienced through the lens of imperial regulation, modes of enquiry, and international and national politics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9780198824558
• ISBN-10: 0198824556
• Artikelnr.: 58413744

Autorenporträt

Billie Melman is Professor of History and Henri Glasberg Chair in European Studies at Tel Aviv University. She is a cultural historian of Britain and has written extensively on colonialism and orientalism, on uses of the British and imperial past, on memory and on gender.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Part I
* 1: Mandated Pasts: War, Peace, and the New Regime of Antiquities
* Part II
* 2: Illustrating the Bible: Travel, Archaeology, and Modernity in
Mandated Biblical Lands
* 3: Cities of David: Planning and Excavating Jerusalem
* 4: Lachish: Excavation, Land and Violence -Tell ed-Duweir, Circa
1932-1945
* Part III
* 5: Ur: Modernity and the Matter of Antiquity between Two World Wars
* 6: Murder in Mesopotamia: Antiquity, Genres of Modernity, and Gender
in the Popular Crime Novel
* 7: Prehistories for Modernity: Stone- Age Humans and Others-Palestine
and Mesopotamia
* 8: Egyptian Antiquity, Imperial Politics, and Modernity: Tutankhamun
and After
* 9: Nefertiti Lived Here: Tell el- Amarna-- Imperial Crisis and
Domestic Modernity, c. 1920-1939
* 10: The Road to Alexandria, the Paths to Siwa-Hellenism, the Modern
World, and the End of Empires, 1915-1956
* Conclusion
* Bibliography