Napoleon in Egypt / edited by Irene A. Bierman ; with an introduction by Afaf Lutfi Al-Sayyid Marsot.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bierman, Irene A.

Sayyid-Marsot, Afaf Lutfi.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815--Campaigns--Egypt--Congresses.

Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815.

History.

Egypt--History--French occupation, 1798-1801--Congresses.

Egypt.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

v, 187 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Reading : Ithaca Press ; Los Angeles : In association with the Gustave E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies, [2003]

Contents:

1 Ottoman Egypt and the French Expedition: Some Long-Term Trends / Nelly Hanna 5

2 The Geopolitics of the Egyptian Expedition, 1797-1798 / Geoffrey Symcox 13

3 Rediscovering Ancient Egypt: Bonaparte's Expedition and the Colonial Ideology of the French Revolution / Stuart Harten 33

4 Mad Sufis and Civic Courtesans: The French Republican Construction of Eighteenth-Century Egypt / Juan R. I. Cole 47

5 Cairo: The Seen and the Unseen in the Description de l'Egypte / Nairy Hampikian 63

6 Napoleon and the French Impact on Egyptian Society in the Eyes of al-Jabarti / Shmuel Moreh 77

7 Social and Political Changes after the French Occupation / Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot 99

8 The French and Egypt's Medical Profession / Amira Sonbol 115

9 Napoleon in Egypt as History and Polemic / James L. Gelvin 139

10 Egypt's Past Regenerated by its Own People / Fayza Haikal 161.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Papers presented at a conference held in 1997 in Los Angeles.

ISBN:

0863722997

OCLC:

53334792