Empires of antiquities : modernity and the rediscovery of the ancient Near East, 1914-1950 / Billie Melman.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020Description: 1 online resource (416 pages) : illustrations (black and white)Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780191863332 (ebook) :Subject(s): Middle East -- Antiquities
| Middle East -- Historiography | Imperialism -- History -- 20th centuryAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780198824558DDC classification: 939.4 LOC classification: DS56Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: Empires of Antiquities is a history of the rediscovery of the imperial civilizations of the ancient Near East in a modern imperial order that evolved between 1914 and 1950. It explores the ways in which near eastern antiquity was redefined and experienced, becoming the subject of imperial regulation, modes of enquiry, and international and national politics. A series of globally publicised archaeological discoveries in Iraq, Egypt, and Palestine made antiquity material visible and accessible as never before. The book demonstrates that the new definition and uses of antiquity and their relations to modernity were inseparable from the emergence of the post-war international imperial order, transnational collaboration and crises, the aspirations of national groups, and collisions between them and the British mandatories.
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Also issued in print: 2020.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Empires of Antiquities is a history of the rediscovery of the imperial civilizations of the ancient Near East in a modern imperial order that evolved between 1914 and 1950. It explores the ways in which near eastern antiquity was redefined and experienced, becoming the subject of imperial regulation, modes of enquiry, and international and national politics. A series of globally publicised archaeological discoveries in Iraq, Egypt, and Palestine made antiquity material visible and accessible as never before. The book demonstrates that the new definition and uses of antiquity and their relations to modernity were inseparable from the emergence of the post-war international imperial order, transnational collaboration and crises, the aspirations of national groups, and collisions between them and the British mandatories.
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