Discourses of Travel, Exploration, and European Power in Egypt from 1750 to 1956

Discourses of Travel, Exploration, and European Power in Egypt from 1750 to 1956
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 261
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ISBN-10 : 9781527590557
ISBN-13 : 1527590550
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Download or read book Discourses of Travel, Exploration, and European Power in Egypt from 1750 to 1956 written by Valerie Kennedy and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-08 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection focuses on representations of Egypt between 1750 and 1956. Napoleon’s Egyptian expedition of 1798-1801 failed in military terms, but succeeded in focusing Western attention on the country. The nation fascinated travellers because of its antiquity, its monuments, and its bazaars. In the nineteenth-century, the typical itinerary for travellers included Alexandria, Cairo, the Pyramids, and a journey by boat up the Nile to the temples of Luxor and others. Some of the essays included in this volume focus on fiction by writers like Samuel Johnson and Charles Dickens, or travel works by Florence Nightingale, Lucie Duff-Gordon, and Gérard de Nerval. Others analyse representations of Egypt by explorers, American ex-soldiers, French painters, British colonial administrators and sociologists, and a Russian doctor investigating the efficacy of Muhammad Ali’s reforms in relation to the plague. There is also a discussion of the changes in nineteenth-century Egyptian dress.


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