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Incidental Archaeologists: French Officers and the Rediscovery of Roman North Africa

By Bonnie Effros

Book information

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9781501718540, 1501718541
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8040445 bytes)
Pages
392\390
Time added
2020-03-26 19:16:54

Description

"From 1830, the Roman ruins of North Africa intrigued invading French military officers and became key to the colonial narrative justifying French settlement of North Africa"-- Cover Title Page, Copyright, Dedication, Epigraphs Contents Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations and Note on Spellings Introduction: War and the Destruction of Antiquities in the Former Ottoman Empire 1. Knowing and Controlling: Early Archaeological Exploration in the Algerian Colony 2. Envisioning the Future: French Generals’ Use of Ancient Rome in the 1840s 3. The View from Ancient Lambaesis 4. Institutionalizing Algerian Archaeology 5. Cartography and Field Archaeology during the Second Empire Epilogue: Classical Archaeology in Algeria after 1870 Notes Bibliography Index

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