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Incidental Archaeologists - French Officers and the Rediscovery of Roman North Africa (Hardcover)
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Incidental Archaeologists - French Officers and the Rediscovery of Roman North Africa (Hardcover)
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In Incidental Archaeologists, Bonnie Effros examines the
archaeological contributions of nineteenth-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
Algeria. By linking the study of the Roman past to French
triumphant narratives of the conquest and occupation of the
Maghreb, Effros demonstrates how Roman archaeology in the forty
years following the conquest of the Ottoman Regencies of Algiers
and Constantine in the 1830s helped lay the groundwork for the
creation of a new identity for French military and civilian
settlers. Effros uses France's violent colonial war, its efforts to
document the ancient Roman past, and its brutal treatment of the
region's Arab and Berber inhabitants to underline the close
entanglement of knowledge production with European imperialism.
Significantly, Incidental Archaeologists shows how the French
experience in Algeria contributed to the professionalization of
archaeology in metropolitan France. Effros demonstrates how the
archaeological expeditions undertaken by the French in Algeria and
the documentation they collected of ancient Roman military
accomplishments reflected French confidence that they would learn
from Rome's technological accomplishments and succeed, where the
Romans had failed, in mastering the region.
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