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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Language
English
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  • Strasbourg : Presses universitaires de Strasbourg, [2017]
  • copyright 2017
Description
290 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 24 cm.

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    Series
    • Etudes orientales, slaves et néo-helléniques. [More in this series]
    • "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.
    ISBN
    9782868209849 (pbk.) :
    OCLC
    992328538
    RCP
    N - S
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