A World History of Nineteenth-Century Archaeology: Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Past (Oxford Studies in the History of Archaeology)
invoked against standardization, innovation, and/or usurpation. As a coun- ter to French interference, one’s own nation was emph ...
CLASSICISM AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION Civilization was a new word, for it had only been incorporated into the French and English ...
Enlightenment period, classical history continued to provide models. How- ever, the selection of the period from which these wer ...
and works of art gave a lesser degree of information, although the latter conferred prestige once moved to a contemporary buildi ...
The division between the past of ancient civilizations and a national past also showed some breaches that deserve exploration. T ...
catalogue about them while holding his post as curator in the Louvre (Gran- Aymerich 1998: 38). The French revolutionaries envis ...
politics... Our age lacks nothing to rival the greatest days of Pericles, Leo X, Julius II and Louis XVI; and our August Protect ...
NAPOLEON IN EGYPT Despite France’s bellicose expansion, her neighbour to the north was not invaded. An invasion of the British I ...
(Sole ́1997: 32). Only a month after his arrival in Egypt, in August 1798, he organized the group of scientists, the Commission ...
described the ancient Egyptians in 1824 as ‘a people who provided the basis of human civilization, who were theWrst in the race ...
in Egypt, Bernardino Drovetti. Other institutions followed suit. This inclu- sion of Egyptian antiquities into the educational p ...
occupied until 1860 (Gran-Aymerich 1998: 59n, 77, 81). AWnal note on protagonists: the French authorities did not feel it necess ...
ancient civilization. They were regarded as the repository of the genius (ge ́nie) of each people (Gran-Aymerich 1998: 36). In t ...
4 Archaeology and the 1820 Liberal Revolution: The Past in the Independence of Greece and Latin American Nations Nationalism did ...
Great Civilizations had been judged as symbols of progress, emblems of the Wrst steps on a long historical route which led to ci ...
for a decade. This was an obvious beneWt for Brazil as many of the legal monopolies Portugal had enjoyed were abolished. Joa ̃o ...
high reputation and foreign institutes opened in Rome and Athens (Chapter 5). In contrast, the appeal to the past of the Mesoame ...
reviving it: they began to write in the language of the ancients, to promote the use of ancient names for the new generations, a ...
The struggle for Greek independence began in 1821. Leaders of the revo- lution implored other nations for help with manifestos l ...
Peloponnesian islands in 1829—the year in which independence was granted, clearly reXect the importance antiquities were given a ...
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