Billie Melman

Empires of Antiquities (eBook, PDF)

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

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Produktbeschreibung

Empires of Antiquities is a history of the rediscovery of civilizations of the ancient Near East in the imperial order that evolved between the outbreak of the First World War and the 1950s. It explores the ways in which Near Eastern antiquity was redefined and experienced, becoming the subject of new regulation, new modes of knowledge, and international and local politics. A series of globally publicized spectacular archaeological discoveries in Iraq, Egypt, and Palestine, which the book follows, made antiquity visible, palpable and accessible as never before. The new uses of antiquity and its relations to modernity were inseparable from the emergence of the post-war world order, imperial collaboration and collisions, and national aspirations. Empires of Antiquities uniquely combines a history of the internationalization of a new "regime of archaeology" under the oversight of the League of Nations and its web of institutions, a history of British passions for Near Eastern antiquity, on-the-ground colonial mechanisms and nationalist claims on the past. It points to the centrality of the mandate system, particularly mandates classified A, in Mesopotamia/Iraq, Palestine and Transjordan, formerly governed by the Ottoman Empire, and of Egypt, in a new culture of antiquity. Drawing on an unusually wide range of archives in several countries, as well as on visual and material evidence, the book weaves together imperial, international, and local histories of institutions, people, ideas and objects and offers an entirely new interpretation of the history of archaeological discovery and its connections to empires and modernity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780192558008
• Artikelnr.: 59446698

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