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Empires of Antiquities

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

Melman, Billie (Professor of Modern History, Professor of Modern History, Tel Aviv University)

Empires of Antiquities

Empires of Antiquities

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

Empires of Antiquities

 

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.


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Beschrijving Empires of Antiquities

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.


ISBN
9780198824558
Pagina's
416
Verschenen
NUR
680
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
OUP Oxford

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