书目名称 | The Description of Egypt from Napoleon to Champollion | 编辑 | Tamar Sarfatti | 视频video | | 概述 | Offers a nuanced view of revolutionary France and its colonial aspirations.Connects the birth of the ‘mission civilisatrice‘ to the country‘s political and intellectual history.Discusses Edward Said‘s | 丛书名称 | War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850 | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | This book is the first study in English of the multi-volume set of texts and engravings of the .Description of Egypt., a work produced following the three-year-long Egyptian campaign led by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1798. The book challenges the conventional and rather reductive interpretation of the .Description .that followed Edward Said‘.s Orientalism, .as a summation of an orientalist colonial project. It re-centres the .Description .in the much more complex and dynamic political and intellectual world of France of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century and its colonial aspirations. It follows closely the notes, texts, and illustrations of the contributors to the work, the majority of whom were graduates of the first years of the Polytechnic school in Paris, and the well-documented editing process that continued for almost thirty years, in which France moved from Revolution to Empire and Restoration. It shows the ways in which scholarly traditions and newly acquired skills interplay with Enlightenment texts, contemporary politics, and received ideas about antiquity, and how these were reinterpreted and modified – in texts and illustrations – through the encounter with th | 出版日期 | Book 2022 | 关键词 | French Revolution; Bonaparte; Orientalism; Ottoman Egypt; Egyptology | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15606-9 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-15608-3 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-15606-9Series ISSN 2634-6699 Series E-ISSN 2634-6702 | issn_series | 2634-6699 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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