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Empires of Antiquities - Modernity and the Rediscovery of the Ancient Near East, 1914-1950 (Hardcover)
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Empires of Antiquities - Modernity and the Rediscovery of the Ancient Near East, 1914-1950 (Hardcover)
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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.
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