This book is the first study in English of the multi-volume set of texts and engravings of theDescription of Egypt, a work produced following the three-year-long Egyptian campaign led by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1798. The book challenges the conventional and rather reductive interpretation of theDescriptionthat followed Edward Said's Orientalism,as a summation of an orientalist colonial project. It re-centres theDescriptionin the much more complex and dynamic political and intellectual world of France of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century and its colonial aspirations. It follows...
This book is the first study in English of the multi-volume set of texts and engravings of theDescription of Egypt, a work produced following the thre...