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Needles from the Nile - Obelisks and the Past as Property (Hardcover)
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Needles from the Nile - Obelisks and the Past as Property (Hardcover)
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In the hearts of London and New York stand their two oldest public
monuments, Cleopatra's Needles, the last of a series of obelisks
from Ancient Egypt to be moved abroad during a period of over two
thousand years. This book uses the Needles to examine how objects
embody the cultures that create them, and how the use, value, and
meaning of these objects change as they are transferred between
cultures by gift, sale, barter, or theft. It explores the way in
which obelisks functioned as imperial trophies, how their transfer
was part of the complex political manoeuvring between European
powers, America, the Ottoman Empire, and the semi-autonomous rulers
of Egypt, and how their acquisition reflected the relative power of
these parties. In contrast, it also examines the crucial role that
private individuals and finance played in the acquisition and
transport of the obelisks, and how popular understanding of them,
and of the culture they came from, often differed from those of
social and professional elites. It also relates the Needles to
contemporary debates about the ownership of cultural artefacts, the
legacy of colonial history, and the nature of reception as the
process of understanding and valuing the past and its surviving
material and immaterial culture.
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