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Author Abt, Jeffrey

Title American Egyptologist : the Life of James Henry Breasted and the Creation of His Oriental Institute
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (532 pages)
Contents List of Maps; Epigraph; Note to the Reader; 1. Equipment for a Great Work; 2. What the Monuments Say; 3. Two Years, Three Books, Seven Volumes; 4. Expeditions to Nubia; 5. Spreading Wings; 6. The Near East as a Whole; 7. An Institute, a Calling; 8. Permanence; 9. A Historical Laboratory; Epitaph; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary James Henry Breasted (1865 & ndash;1935) had a career that epitomizes our popular image of the archaeologist. Daring, handsome, and charismatic, he traveled on expeditions to remote and politically unstable corners of the Middle East, helped identify the tomb of King Tut, and was on the cover of Time magazine. But Breasted was more than an Indiana Jones & mdash;he was an accomplished scholar, academic entrepreneur, and talented author who brought ancient history to life not just for students but for such notables as Teddy Roosevelt and Sigmund Freud. In American Egyptologist, Jeffrey Abt weaves tog
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-488) and index
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Subject Breasted, James Henry, 1865-1935.
SUBJECT Breasted, James Henry, 1865-1935 fast
Subject University of Chicago. Oriental Institute -- History
SUBJECT University of Chicago. Oriental Institute fast
Subject Archaeology -- Egypt -- History
HISTORY -- Ancient -- Egypt.
Archaeology
Egypt
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780226001128
0226001121
9780226001104
0226001105
1280126531
9781280126536