Egyptology from the First World War to the Third Reich : : ideology, scholarship, and individual biographies / / edited by Thomas Schneider and Paul Raulwing.

Only recently has Egyptology begun to critically examine its history in the first half of the 20th century. This book presents major contributions that analyze the interplay of personal biographies and political history, ideologies and academic scholarship between the First World War and the Third R...

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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Egyptologists, Nazism and Racial “Science” / Edmund S. Meltzer
  • Imperialism and Racial Geography in James Henry Breasted’s Ancient Times, a History of the Early World / Lindsay J. Ambridge
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bissing im Blickpunkt ägyptologischer und zeithistorischer Forschungen: die Jahre 1914 bis 1926 / Peter Raulwing and Thomas L. Gertzen
  • Ägyptologen im Dritten Reich: Biographische Notizen anhand der sogenannten „Steindorff-Liste“ / Thomas Schneider
  • Manfred Mayrhofer’s Studies on Indo-Aryan and the Indo-Aryans in the Ancient Near East: A Retrospective and Outlook on Future Research / Peter Raulwing
  • Index of Names.