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Author: Scott Trafton
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2004-11-19
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780822333623
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDIVExplores the relation between nineteenth-century American interest in ancient Egypt in architecture, literature, and science, and the ways Egypt was deployed by advocates for slavery and by African American writers./div
Author: Judith E. Tucker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780521314206
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book provides a unique account of the very active economic, social and political roles of nineteenth-century women.
Author: Ehud R. Toledano
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-02-13
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780521534536
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPrevious studies of nineteenth-century Egypt have often been premature in identifying the existence of an independent nation state. In a way which will permanently affect our view of Egyptian history, this book argues that in the mid-nineteenth-century period Egypt was still an Ottoman province, with a provincial Ottoman elite which was only gradually becoming Egyptian. Part one discusses the creation of a dynastic order in Egypt, especially under Abbas Pasa (1848-1854), and the formation of an Ottoman-Egyptian ruling class. Part two deals with the non-elite groups, the vast majority of Egypt's population. A final chapter offers a convincing picture of the social and cultural life of the period in a way which has never before been attempted in a Middle East context. The author's valuable knowledge of Ottoman and Arabic as well as European documents and his use of a wide variety of sources, including police and court records, chronicles and travel literature, have enabled him to make an important contribution to a neglected period of Egyptian history and indeed to our understanding of other provinces and dependencies in the region.
Author: L. Parramore
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008-10-13
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 0230615708
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReading the Sphinx unearths buried conflicts in religion, myth, and the memory of Egypt in the West, illuminating issues of identity, inheritance, gender, and sexuality through cultural productions ranging from Herodotus to Freud.
Author: S.J. Wolfe
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2009-10-14
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780786439416
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work examines Egyptian mummies as artifacts in pre-1900 America: how they got here, what happened to them, and how they were perceived by the public and by archaeologists. Collected newspaper accounts and other documents reveal the progression of American interest in mummies as curiosities, commodities, and cultural lessons. Numerous mummies which no longer exist are identified, and commentary on mummy coffins and a discussion of methods of public exhibition are included.
Author: E. A. Wallis Budge
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780486417219
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on the monuments on either side of the Nile, the author describes Egyptians, their writing, religion and gods, plus historic locales and objects: Alexandria, Cairo, the Rosetta Stone, the pyramids, the Sphinx; the statue of Rameses II, the temples at Luxor and Karnak, major sites where royal mummies were discovered, and more.
Author: Jacob M. Landau
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-14
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 1317245962
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough nineteenth-century Egyptian Jewry was an active and creative part of society, this work from 1969 is the main comprehensive work devoted to an analysis and appraisal of its activities. The period under review commences with the fall of the Mamluk regime in Egypt, and the incipient modernization of the state, with the resulting increase in Jewish activity. It terminates with the end of World War I and the new era in the history of modern Egypt, an era of extreme nationalism that led to the undermining of the Jewish community.
Author: Hilary Kalmbach
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-10-22
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1108530346
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor 130 years, tensions have raged over the place of Islamic ideas and practices within modern Egypt. This history focuses on a pivotal yet understudied school, Dar al-Ulum, whose alumni became authoritative arbiters of how to be modern and authentic within a Muslim-majority community, including by founding the Muslim Brotherhood.
Author: Timothy Mitchell
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1991-10-11
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 0520911660
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExtending deconstructive theory to historical and political analysis, Timothy Mitchell examines the peculiarity of Western conceptions of order and truth through a re-reading of Europe's colonial encounter with nineteenth-century Egypt.
Author: Eleanor Dobson
Publisher:
Published: 2020-07-31
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781526141880
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edited collection considers representations of ancient Egypt in the literature of the nineteenth-century. It addresses themes such as reanimated mummies, ancient Egyptian mythology and contemporary consumer culture across literary modes ranging from burlesque satire to historical novels, stage performances to Gothic fiction and popular culture to the highbrow. The book illuminates unknown sources of historical significance - including the first illustration of an ambulatory mummy - revising current understandings of the works of canonical writers and grounding its analysis firmly in a contemporary context. The contributors demonstrate the extensive range of cultural interest in ancient Egypt that flourished during Victoria's reign. At the same time, they use ancient Egypt to interrogate 'selfhood' and 'otherness', notions of race, imperialism, religion, gender and sexuality.
