| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 348 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
New Americanists |
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New Americanists.
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| Contents |
"An inspired frenzy or madness" -- "This Egypt of the West" : making race and nation along the American Nile -- "A veritable he-nigger after all" : Egypt, ethnology, and the crises of history -- The Egyptian moment : racial ruptures and the archaeological imaginary -- The curse of the mummy : race, reanimation, and the Egyptian revival -- Undressing Cleopatra : race, sex, and bodily interiority in nineteenth-century American Egyptomania -- Egypt land : slavery, uprising, and signifying the double |
| Summary |
Explores the relation between nineteenth-century American interest in ancient Egypt in architecture, literature, and science, and the ways Egypt was deployed by advocates for slavery and by African American writers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-338) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Racism -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Slavery -- Egypt
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Slavery -- United States.
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Education.
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Public opinion, American.
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Race relations.
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Racism.
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Slavery.
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| SUBJECT |
Egypt -- Study and teaching -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Egypt -- Foreign public opinion, American -- History -- 19th century
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United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
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| Subject |
Egypt.
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2004007962 |
| ISBN |
9780822386315 |
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0822386313 |
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