Incidental archaeologists : French officers and the rediscovery of Roman North Africa

Incidental archaeologists French officers and the rediscovery of Roman North Africa

'Incidental Archaeologists' examines the archaeological contributions of 19th-century French military officers, who, raised on classical accounts of warfare and often trained as cartographers, developed an interest in the Roman remains they encountered when commissioned in the colony of Al...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Effros, Bonnie, 1965- author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press 2022.
Colección:Cornell scholarship online.
Materias:
Archaeology > Political aspects > Algeria > History > 19th century.
Archaeology > Political aspects > France > History > 19th century.
Archaeology and state > France > History > 19th century.
France > Armed Forces > Algeria > Operations other than war > History > 19th century.
Algeria > Antiquities, Roman.
Algeria > History > 1830-1962.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: War and the Destruction of Antiquities in the Former Ottoman Empire
  • Knowing and Controlling: Early Archaeological Exploration in the Algerian Colony
  • Envisioning the Future: French Generals' Use of Ancient Rome in the 1840s
  • The View from Ancient Lambaesis
  • Institutionalizing Algerian Archaeology
  • Cartography and Field Archaeology during the Second Empire
  • Epilogue: Classical Archaeology in Algeria after 1870
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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