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Geographies of contact : Britain, the Middle East and the circulation of knowledge / Hélène Ibata, Caroline Lehni, Fanny Moghaddassi, Nader Nasiri-Moghaddam.
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Strasbourg : Presses universitaires de Strasbourg, [2017]
copyright 2017
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290 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 24 cm.
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Orientalism
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Great Britain
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History
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Great Britain
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Relations
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Middle East
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Middle East
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Pharabod-Ibata, Hélène
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Lehni, Caroline
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Moghaddassi, Fanny
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Nasiri Muqaddam, Muhammad Nadir
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Etudes orientales, slaves et néo-helléniques.
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"Études orientales, slaves et néo-helléniques"
Notes
Including the proceedings of a conference held in Strasbourg, France, June 2014.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Scripting the orient
Staging English Contacts with, the Middle East in Mandeville's Travels / Fanny Moghaddassi
Mandeville as a mediator between the English and the Middle East
The reader's imaginary contact with the Middle East
Staging contacts with the Middle East
Gregory Wortabet "of Bayroot, Syria" A Failed Encounter? / Jacqueline Jondot
The British in Persia in the late Qajar Era: New Historical Evidence / Yann Richard
A tribal monarchy distrustful of political modernity
European influence or interference
An agent of imperialism
Two French observera
2. Mapping the orient
The English in the Levant in the 12th and 13di Centuries: New Geographical and Cartographic Approaches in the Wake of the Crusades / Damien Coulon
Conflicted Cartographies of a Peninsula: Deconstructing Fraser Hunter's 1908 Map of Arabia / Daniel Foliard
Collecting and sharing knowledge: maps and their flaws
Documenting Yemen
Locating the Persian Gulf: the Indian Political Service and its sub-empire
Musil and Huber: colonial competition in the Peninsula and internationalism
"Native" information and local cartographies: ambivalent topographies
3. Objects transferred
Ottoman Things in Early-Modern England / Gerald Maclean
The Somerset House Painting
Oriental Objects in 17th Century English Cabinets of Curiosities: The Tradescant Collection / Christoph Heyl
4. Sites turned into sights
The Orient at Leicester Square: Virtual Visual Encounters in the First Panoramas / Hélène Ibata
Ottoman settings and military campaigns: the dual purposes of panoramic battle scenes
Topographic panoramas: the limitations of the geographical gaze
British Travellers in the Isthmas of Suez, from Napoleon's Campaign (1798) to die Construction of the Canal (1859) / Hélène Braeuner
Framing Istanbul: Resonances of the Photography of James Robertson in Envisioning the City / Wendy Shaw
5. Orientalist contact zones
Jules Mohl: A Missing Link in the Complex Network of Nineteenth-Century Orientalism? / Isabelle Gadoin
The Victorian discovery of the great Persian epic
The quest for Jules Mohl
A plea for "connected histories"
The First British and French Archaeological Investigations in Susa during die 19th Century / Nader Nasiri-Moghaddam
Susa and the pioneering British archaeologists in the 19th century
Dieulafoy's mission: the first step of French archaeology in Iran
Excavation campaign 1884-85: violation of the convention
Excavation campaign 1885-86: closing the works
Dialogues with the Dead, and with the Living too! British Egyptology Societies and die Politics of Preservation (1882-1898) / Stéphanie Prevost
Egyptian Antiquities for Egyptians
Maspero and the Egypt Exploration Fund (1879-1886): A Gentleman's Agreement?
Misunderstandings-about preservation and mounting Anglo-French rivalry (1886-1898)
6. Transposing legal and political principles
Irish Nationalist MPs and the Egyptian Revolt of 1881-1882: An Example of Cross-Imperial Solidarity? / Pauline Collombier-Lakeman
Events in Egypt in 1881-1882
Events in Ireland and Anglo-Irish relations in 1881-1882
The involvement of Irish nationalist MPs in the debates on Egypt
Questioning the reasons for going to war
Warning about the impact of the war
Genuine anti-imperialists?
The Murder of Bibi Asilah: A failed early mixed-court case in Qajar Iran / Willem Floor
What happened?
What was the motive for the murder?
The British Resident asks the qâzi to judge the crime
The qâzi states there is no case
The qâzi clarifies his position
The British Resident investigates the crime, after the governor declines to do so
The British Resident asks the Tehran government to intervene
Tehran summons the perpetrators, but the governor delays implementation
One alleged perpetrator too ill to be moved
The victim's brother is offered immunity in exchange for his testimony
Two alleged perpetrators leave for Tehran
Discussion.
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