Author: Elliott Colla
Publisher: Duke University Press
Keywords: egyptian, modernity, egyptomania, egyptology, antiquities, conflicted
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2007-12-30
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0822339927
ISBN-13: 9780822339922

Conflicted Antiquities is a rich cultural history of European and Egyptian interest in ancient Egypt and its material culture, from the early nineteenth century until the mid-twentieth. Consulting the relevant Arabic archives, Elliott Colla demonstrates that the emergence of Egyptology--the study of ancient Egypt and its material legacy--was as consequential for modern Egyptians as it was for Europeans. The values and practices introduced by the new science of archaeology played a key role in the formation of a new colonial regime in Egypt. This fact was not lost on Egyptian na

Author: Suzanne N. Lalonde
Publisher: Institute for Research on Public Policy
Keywords: uti, possidetis, role, world, boundaries, conflicted, determining
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2003-02
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 077352424X
ISBN-13: 9780773524248

In 1992, when Yugoslavia was on the point of disintegration, the Badinter Commission recommended that the issue of its boundaries be resolved according to the principle of uti possidetis: the internal boundaries dividing the former Yugoslav Republics should automatically become the international boundaries of the new states. Elated by what seemed a clear and workable solution to an impossible problem, the international community proceeded to impose the ’binding’ principle of uti possidetis on all the parties involved. Relying on the Badinter interpretation of uti possidetis, five e

Authors:Benjamin G. Wright, Lawrence M. Wills,
Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
Keywords: society, biblical, literature, series, symposium, boundaries, wisdom, apocalypticism, conflicted
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2005-10-31
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 1589831845
ISBN-13: 9781589831841

The notion that wisdom and apocalypticism represent fundamentally different and mutually exclusive categories of genre and worldview in early Jewish and Christian literature persists in current scholarship. The essays in this volume, the work of the Wisdom and Apocalypticism Group of the Society of Biblical Literature, challenge that generally held view as they explore the social locations and scholarly constructions of these literatures and discover an ancient reality of more porous categories and complex interrelationships. The volume draws on a broad range of Jewish and Christian texts, inc

Author: Annelie RamsbrockKonrad H. Jarausch; Thomas Linde
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Keywords: contemporary, european, history, studies, histories, europeanizing, conflicted, memories
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-05-30
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 1845452844
ISBN-13: 9781845452841

Despite the growing interest in general European history, the European dimension is surprisingly absent from the writing of contemporary history. In most countries, the historiography on the 20th century continues to be dominated by national perspectives. Although there is cross-national work on specific topics such as occupation or resistance, transnational conceptions and narratives of contemporary European history have yet to be worked out. This volume focuses on the development of a shared conception of recent European history that will be required as an underpinning for further economic a