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Napoleon in Egypt

لـ Irene A. Bierman

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تاريخ النشر: 01/01/2002

الناشر: Ithaca press

النوع: ورقي غلاف عادي

نبذة QIvVgZ5BfWالناشر:Napoleon Bonaparte's goal in setting sail for Egypt in 1798 was to establish a military protectorate in the Near East in order to impinge on Britain's commercial trade routes to India. While this event has often been seen as having a significant impact on the Egyptian economy and political structures, ...it should also be seen in the context of longer term historical changes and the conditions of the period.
Two centuries of polemics and differing historiographies arising from the French invasion of Egypt were the motive force for the international conference on Napoleon in Egypt that produced this collective work. The brief occupation that resulted in the monumental Description de l'Egypte can only be fairly judged when both its immediate and its long-term effects can be assessed in the light of hindsight.
The papers contained in this volume look at all aspects of the invasion and place it in the context of Egyptian history. Firstly, Egypt at the time of the invasion is discussed, including political and economic trends. The reasons behind the French invasion, which arose from the geopolitical environment, French/British rivalry and a colonial ideology are analysed, as are the more populist forms of French Republican ideology. The imapct of the invasion is considered in terms of the savants, whose methods and records of ancient Egyptian artefacts had a significant influence on modern archaeology, the regeneration of Egyptian society and the destructive effects of the Ottoman/British expulsion of the French. The papers conclude that the historiography and reawakening of Egyptology which were a result of the French invasion had a significant effect on Egyptian national consciousness and the desire to regenerate their present.
Resulting from the international conference on Napoleon in Egypt held in 1997 at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, these papers are written experts in the field including Nelly Hanna of the American University in Cairo, Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot of the University of California, Los Angeles and Amira el-Azhary Sonbol of Georgetown University.
Irene A. Bierman is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is also Director of the Gustav E. Von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies.

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Napoleon in Egypt

لـ Irene A. Bierman