Incidental Archaeologists : : French Officers and the Rediscovery of Roman North Africa / / Bonnie Effros.
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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (396 p.) :; 42 b&w halftones, 1 map |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: War and the Destruction of Antiquities in the Former Ottoman Empire
- Knowing and Controlling: Early Archaeological Exploration in the Algerian Colony
- Envisioning the Future: French Generals’ Use of Ancient Rome in the 1840s
- The View from Ancient Lambaesis
- Institutionalizing Algerian Archaeology
- Cartography and Field Archaeology during the Second Empire
- Epilogue: Classical Archaeology in Algeria after 1870
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index