Empires of antiquities : modernity and the rediscovery of the ancient near east, 1914-1950 / Billie Melman.

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"Empires of Antiquities' is a history of the rediscovery of the imperial civilizations of the ancient Near East in a modern imperial order that evolved between the outbreak of the First World War and the decolonization of the British Empire in the 1950s. It explores the ways in which near eastern an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Melman, Billie (Author)
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2020]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Excavations (Archaeology) > History > 20th century.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Political aspects > History > 20th century.
Middle East > Civilization > Historiography.
Middle East > Historiography.
Civilization > Historiography.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Historiography.
Middle East.
Archäologische Stätte.
Erforschung.
Alter Orient.
1900-1999
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xiv, 395 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Format: Book

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