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Whose pharaohs?: archaeology, museums, and Egyptian national identity from Napoleon to World War I
Donald Malcolm Reid
Year: 2003, c2002.
Publisher:  University of California Press. 
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table of contents
Title Page
Copyright and Permissions
Dedication
List of Illustrations
Figures
Maps
Tables
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Dates
Introduction
Part One: Imperial and National Preludes, 1798-1882
Chapter 1: Rediscovering Ancient Egypt: Champollion and al-Tahtawi
Intro
European Images of Ancient Egypt before Champollion
The European Rediscovery of Upper Egyptian Antiquities
Muslim Images of Ancient Egypt before al-Tahtawi
The French Expedition and the Institut d'Égypte
The Description de l'Égypte
Al-Jabarti and the French Expedition
The Consul-Collectors: Salt, Drovetti, and Anglo-French Rivalry
Al-Jabarti and the Frankish Archaeologists
The Decipherers: Young, Champollion, and Anglo-French Rivalry
The Copyists, British and French
The German Debut: The Lepsius Expedition
Institutional Contexts: Museums and Learned Societies in Europe
Transplanting a European Model: Cairo's Egyptian Society
Al-Tahtawi Rediscovers the Pharaohs
Muhammad Ali's Archaeological Diplomacy
Armenian Mediations: Yusuf or Joseph Hekekyan?
Chapter 2: From Explorer to Cook's Tourist
Intro
Explorer, Traveler, and Tourist
Steamship, Railroad, and Travel Time
Money, Leisure, and Social Class
The Birth of the Modern Guidebook: Murray, Baedeker, and Joanne
Hotels in Cairo and Alexandria
Firmans and Dress, Flags and Firearms
"Intercourse with Orientals"
Tourists and European Residents: Nationality and Quantity
Recommended Reading and "Points Requiring Examination"
From Land of Pestilence to Health Resort
Up the Nile: Dahabiyya, Steamer, and Railroad
Reporting Home: Paintings and Travelers' Tales, Photographs and Postcards
The Industrialization of Travel: Thomas Cook and Son
Chapter 3: Egyptology under Ismail: Mariette, al-Tahtawi, and Brugsch, 1850-1882
Intro
Ismail's Precarious Renaissance
(Re-)Founding the Antiquities Service
The Egyptian Museum: Mariette at Bulaq
Al-Tahtawi's History of Pre-Islamic Egypt
Egyptological Rivalries in Cairo: France, Germany, and the Rest
Egyptology for the Egyptians: Brugsch and the School of Egyptology
Ancient Egypt and the Egyptian Public
Egyptology at the Institut Égyptien and Khedivial Geographical Society
Representing Egypt: World's Fair Fantasies of Pharaoh
Representing Egyptology: International Congresses of Orientalists
The Gathering Storm: Ismail and Mariette in the 1870s
Part Two: Imperial High Noon, Nationalist Dawn, 1882-1914
Chapter 4: Cromer and the Classics: Ideological Uses of the Greco-Roman Past
Intro
Classical Discourse in Western Identity
Egypt through European Classical Lenses
Muslim Views on Classical Greece and Rome before al-Tahtawi
Al-Tahtawi's Classical Greece and Rome
Greeks, Italians, and Alexandria's Nineteenth-Century Renaissance
Mahmud al-Falaki: Excavating and Mapping Ancient Alexandria
Gladstone, Cromer, and Ancient and Modern Imperialism
The Greco-Roman Museum and the Société d'archéologie d'Alexandrie
Syrian Christian Immigrants and the Greco-Roman Classics
Egyptian Experimentation with the Greco-Roman Classics
An International Congress of Classical Archaeology in Cairo
The Greco-Roman Legacy on the Eve of World War I
Chapter 5: Egyptology in the Age of Maspero and Ahmad Kamal
Intro
Maspero, IFAO, and the Antiquities Service to 1886
The Return of British Egyptology: Petrie and the Egypt Exploration Fund
Pyramids and Progress: Ali Mubarak's Ancient Egypt
Egyptological Skirmishes on the Road to Fashoda, 1886-1899
A Toehold in Egyptology: Ahmad Kamal and His Generation
Egyptology and Egyptian Representation in the Institut Égyptien
Representing Ancient Egypt: World's Fairs and International Congresses of Orientalists
Marcel Dourgnon's Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Maspero and the Entente Cordiale
The Return of the Germans and the Italians
The American Debut
The Work of Ahmad Kamal
Ancient Egypt in Turn-of-the-Century National Consciousness
Chapter 6: Islamic Art, Archaeology, and Orientalism: The Comité and Ali Bahgat
Intro
Prelude to Preservation: Haussmannizing Cairo
Historic Preservation in Europe and Appreciation of Arab Art
Imperialism, Preservation, and the Birth of the Comité
The Comité under the British Occupation
The Formation of Ali Bahgat
Ali Mubarak and the European Preservationists
European National Representation on the Comité
The Museum of Arab Art
Neo-Islamic Architecture
Locations of Resistance: Awqaf Officials and the Palace
Ali Bahgat, Nationalism, and the Orientalists
Representing Egypt: International Congresses of Orientalists
Representing Egypt: "Streets of Cairo" at the World's Fairs
Ali Bahgat, al-Fustat, and the Coming of the War
Chapter 7: Modern Sons of the Pharaohs?: Marcus Simaika and the Coptic Past
Intro
The Copts to 1854
Renaissance and Reaction: Patriarch Cyril IV and After
The Education of Marcus Simaika
Coptic Reform and the British Occupation
Revaluing the Coptic Past: European Perspectives
Revaluing the Coptic Past: Simaika and the Comité
From Armenians to Copts
Founding the Coptic Museum
Copts between Millet and the Nation
Children of the Coptic Church or of the Pharaohs?
Conclusion
Appendix: Supplementary Tables
Table 6: Egyptian Guidebook Editions, by Language
Table 7: Nationalities of Western Authors of Egyptian Travel Books
Table 8: Foreign Residents of Egypt (and Protégés), by Nationality (In Thousands)
Table 9: Ranking by Nationality of Number of Residents and Indicators of Tourism
Table 10: Membership in the Institut Égyptien and the Khedivial Geographical Society
Table 11: World's Fairs and International Congresses, 1851-1882
Table 12: Heads of the Egyptian Antiquities Service, 1858-1952
Table 13: World's Fairs and International Congresses, 1883-1914
Table 14: Founding Dates of Western Archaeological Institutes in the Mediterranean
Notes
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Rediscovering Ancient Egypt
Chapter 2. From Explorer to Cook's Tourist
Chapter 3. Egyptology under Ismail
Chapter 4. Cromer and the Classics
Chapter 5. Egyptology in the Age of Maspero and Ahmad Kamal
Chapter 6. Islamic Art, Archaeology, and Orientalism
Chapter 7. Modern Sons of the Pharaohs?
Conclusion
Select Bibliography
Unpublished Sources
Note on Sources
Egypt
United Kingdom
France
United States
Published Sources
Nationalism and Imperialism, General
Modern Egypt and the Middle East, General
Modern Egypt, Cultural
Foreigners and Non-Egyptian Minorities in Egypt
Archaelogy and Museums, General
The French Expedition—Chapter 1
Travel and Tourism, General—Chapter 2
Egyptian Travel Accounts, Guidebooks, and Tourism—Chapters 1 and 2
Egyptology and Egyptomania—Chapters 1, 3, and 5
International Exhibitions—Chapters 3, 5, and 6
Greco-Roman Studies—Chapter 4
Orientalism and Islamic Art, Architecture, and Archaeology—Chapter 6
Coptic Studies—Chapter 7
Index
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Title: Whose pharaohs? : archaeology, museums, and Egyptian national identity from Napoleon to World War I Donald Malcolm Reid.
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Subject Headings: • Archaeology -- Egypt -- History
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• Egypt -- Antiquities
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