Finding Antiquity, Making the Modern Middle East

Archaeology, Empires, Nations

Guillemette Crouzet, Eva Miller (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2025
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-45869-7 (ISBN)

Noch nicht erschienen (ca. März 2025)
Versandkostenfrei
Auch auf Rechnung

Artikel merken

This volume presents innovative studies of how the emerging disciplines of archaeology and ancient history shaped the modern Middle East, and how they were in turn shaped by competing visions and agendas of empires and new nations. The Middle East was a region constructed through its putatively unique relationship to the whole world’s past—and its special relevance for the destiny of empires and nations. Over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, European empires fought for influence and control over this ‘cradle’ of civilization, empire and monuments, and local powers and people in the Middle East worked with and against these historical and heritage frameworks in their own quests for self-determination.

In this volume, contributors from the fields of history, archaeology and heritage explore how historical consciousness about the Middle East was contested in the nineteenth and early twentieth century through excavation and interpretation of the past. Chapters span West Asia and North Africa, covering Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Egypt and Tunisia, and the imperial history of Britain, France, Germany and the Ottoman Empire. The result is an original contribution to our understanding of the origins and influence of Middle Eastern archaeology, which resonates today in contemporary discussions on heritage discourses and practices.

Guillemette Crouzet is a Marie Curie Sklodowska Individual Research Fellow at Warwick University, UK. She is the author of the award-winning book Genèses du Moyen-Orient. Le Golfe Persique à l'âge des impérialismes (c.1800–1914) (2015). Eva Miller is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Middle Eastern History at University College London, UK. She is the author of Early Civilization and the American Modern: Imagining Middle Eastern Origins in the United States, 1893–1939 (forthcoming).

List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements

Foreword (Zeynep Çelik, Columbia University, USA)

Introduction (Guillemette Crouzet, Warwick University, UK and Eva Miller, UCL, UK)

Part One: Travellers and Takers
1. Housing the Mausoleum: British Travellers and Excavation in Bodrum c.1760–1870 (Debbie Challis, Manchester University, UK)
2. Austen Henry Layard and the Cadi’s Letter: The Multiple Pasts and Futures of Nineteenth-Century Mosul (Daniel Foliard, University Paris Cité, France)
3. Who Owns the Phoenician Past? German Orientalism and the Politics of Time and Space Across the Mediterranean (Nora Derbal, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
4. Near Eastern Studies in Germany and the Complex Involvement of German Jews with ‘the Orient’ (Thomas Gertzen, Free University of Berlin, Germany)

Part Two: Nationalism and Internationalism
5. Antiquities for ‘A’ Mandate: Internationalism, the Emergence of a 'Regime of Archaeology' and the Reorganisation of the Middle East, c. 1914–1939 (Billie Melman, Tel Aviv University, Israel)
6. Antique Nationalism: Archaeology and the Construction of the Nation in Egypt, Lebanon, and Israel (Erin O’Halloran, University of Cambridge, UK)
7. Who (or What) is a ‘Phoenician’? The Complex History of an Ancient People in a Modern Society (Marwan Kilani, University of Basel, Switzerland)
8. Between Archaeology and Nationalism: The Iran Bastan’s Appropriation of the Imperial Museum Paradigm (Solmaz Kive, University of Oregon, USA)

Part Three: Valuing Antiquities
9. The Traders: Archaeology, Family and Fortune between Saïda and Paris (Sarah Griswold, Oklahoma State University, USA)
10. Subjects of Destruction: Preservationism, Extractivism and Cultural Property in Egypt (1882–1939) (Amany Abd el Hameed, Helwan University, Egypt and Robert Vigar, University of Pennsylvania, USA)
11. Who is an Archaeologist? Deconstructing Archaeology in Palestine (Nicole Khayat, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)

Part Four: Living with Antiquities
12. Excavating Iraq’s Past within the Pages of Lughat al-?Arab, 1911–1931 (Laith Shakir, New York University, USA)
13. Dismantling Nablus: the Samaritans, Orientalism and the Mandate Department of Antiquities (Sarah Irving, Staffordshire University, UK)
14. Destructing Middle Eastern and North African Archaeological Practices: An Indigenous Egyptian Counter-Narrative (Heba Abd el Gawad, UCL, UK)

Epilogue (Lynn Meskell, University of Pennsylvania, USA)

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.3.2025
Zusatzinfo	29 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-350-45869-4 / 1350458694
ISBN-13	978-1-350-45869-7 / 9781350458697
Zustand	Neuware