Return to Alexandria
Title | Return to Alexandria PDF eBook |
Author | Beverley Butler |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 300 |
Release | 2016-07 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1315420848 |
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina was launched with great fanfare in the 1990s, a project of UNESCO and the Egyptian government to recreate the glory of the Alexandria Library and Museion of the ancient world. The project and its timing were curious—it coincided with scholarship moving away from the dominance of the western tradition; it privileged Alexandria’s Greek heritage over 1500 years of Islamic scholarship; and it established an island for the cultural elite in an urban slum. Beverley Butler’s ethnography of the project explores these contradictions, and the challenges faced by Egyptian and international scholars in overcoming them. Her critique of the underlying foundational concepts and values behind the Library is of equal importance, a nuanced postcolonial examination of memory, cultural revival, and homecoming. In this, she draws upon a wide array of thinkers: Freud, Derrida, Said, and Bernal, among others. Butler’s book will be of great value to museologists, historians, archaeologists, cultural scholars, and heritage professionals.
Egypt: Upper Egypt, with Nubia as far as the second cataract and the western cases
Title | Egypt: Upper Egypt, with Nubia as far as the second cataract and the western cases PDF eBook |
Author | Karl Baedeker (Firm) |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 458 |
Release | 1892 |
Genre | Egypt |
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Despatches, Correspondence, and Memoranda of Field Marshal Arthur, Duke of Wellington, K. G.: 1828-1829
Title | Despatches, Correspondence, and Memoranda of Field Marshal Arthur, Duke of Wellington, K. G.: 1828-1829 PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 702 |
Release | 1873 |
Genre | Great Britain |
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Supplementary Despatches, Correspondence, and Memoranda of Field Marshal Arthur Duke of Wellington ...
Title | Supplementary Despatches, Correspondence, and Memoranda of Field Marshal Arthur Duke of Wellington ... PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Wellesley “of” Wellington |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 708 |
Release | 1873 |
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Report
Title | Report PDF eBook |
Author | Virginia. Adjutant General's Office |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 228 |
Release | 1907 |
Genre | Virginia |
ISBN |
Lectures on the History of the Eastern Church ... Third edition
Title | Lectures on the History of the Eastern Church ... Third edition PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Penrhyn STANLEY (Dean of Westminster.) |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 538 |
Release | 1869 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Lectures on the History of the Eastern Church
Title | Lectures on the History of the Eastern Church PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 568 |
Release | 1862 |
Genre | Church |
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