Contesting Antiquity in Egypt

Contesting Antiquity in EgyptThe sensational discovery in 1922 of Tutankhamuns tomb, close on the heels of Britains declaration of Egyptian independence, accelerated the growth in Egypt of both Egyptology as a formal discipline and of pharaonism'popular interest in ancient Egyptas an inspiration in the struggle for full independence. Emphasizing the three decades from 1922 until Nassers revolution in 1952, this compelling follow up to Whose Pharaohs? looks at the ways in which

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one of North America's leading Sanskritists and historians of early India

Devoney Looser explores the author's published and unpublished work and digs into her family history and legacy

Against the backdrop of cutting-edge developments in electronic art

The book explores the dandy as a cultural type across Europe and Russia from the eighteenth century through the present day

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The book provides a new vantage point from which to enrich the study of exile and also contributes important new scholarship to the history of women

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‘The Politics of Swidden farming’ is an ethnography of swidden farming practised – a characteristically remote

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