Incidental Archaeologists (eBook)

French Officers and the Rediscovery of Roman North Africa

Bonnie Effros (Autor)

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2018
396 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-1853-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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 colony of Algeria. By linking the study of the Roman past to French triumphant narratives of the conquest and occupation of the Maghreb, Effros demonstrates how Roman archaeology in the forty years following the conquest of the Ottoman Regencies of Algiers and Constantine in the 1830s helped lay the groundwork for the creation of a new identity for French military and civilian settlers.

Effros uses France's violent colonial war, its efforts to document the ancient Roman past, and its brutal treatment of the region's Arab and Berber inhabitants to underline the close entanglement of knowledge production with European imperialism. Significantly, Incidental Archaeologists shows how the French experience in Algeria contributed to the professionalization of archaeology in metropolitan France.

Effros demonstrates how the archaeological expeditions undertaken by the French in Algeria and the documentation they collected of ancient Roman military accomplishments reflected French confidence that they would learn from Rome's technological accomplishments and succeed, where the Romans had failed, in mastering the region.

Open Access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities

Autor

Bonnie Effros is Professor of European History and Chaddock Chair of Economic and Social History at the University of Liverpool. She is author of Uncovering the Germanic Past.

Inhalt

Introduction: War and the Destruction of Antiquities in the Former Ottoman Empire
1. Knowing and Controlling: Early Archaeological Exploration in the Algerian Colony
2. Envisioning the Future: French Generals' Use of Ancient Rome in the 1840s
3. The View from Ancient Lambaesis
4. Institutionalizing Algerian Archaeology
5. Cartography and Field Archaeology during the Second Empire
Epilogue: Classical Archaeology in Algeria after 1870

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.8.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 42 b&w halftones, 1 map
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: Algeria, colonial archaeology, Roman archaeology, French colonialism, military archaeology • French colonialism in Algeria, wartime archaeology and pillage, Roman archaeology in Algeria, history of the Maghreb
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-1853-3 / 1501718533
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-1853-3 / 9781501718533