| Description |
1 online resource (311 pages) : 7 illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Oriens et Occidens ; 30 |
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Oriens et occidens ; 30.
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| Contents |
Intro; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Chapter I Introduction; 1.1 Alexander the Great and the British Empire: Classical Reception in Context; 1.2 Travel Writing as a Mode of Classical Reception; 1.3 The Reception of Alexander between Cultural Memory and Cultural Encounter; 1.4 Summary of the Chapters; Chapter II Setting the Stage; 2.1 Major James Rennell, Geography, and the Mapping of Alexander's Indian Conquest; 2.2 The Memory of Alexander Between Enlightenment Philosophy and Geopolitics in Napoleonic Times; 2.3 Diplomatic Missions and the First Explorations Beyond the 'Frontier' |
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2.4 The Next Generation of Trans-Frontier Exploration and the Russian ThreatChapter III Romancing Alexander; 3.1 Afghanistan, Imagination, and the Imitation of Alexander the Great; 3.2 Up the Indus and Through Afghanistan: Sir Alexander Burnes in the Footsteps of Alexander the Great -- The Identities of Places and People; 3.3 'General' Josiah Harlan's Reception of Alexander the Great: The Macedonian as Political and Personal Model; 3.4 "The Man Who Would Be King" and the Cultural Imagination of Imperial Aspirations Fashioned on the Reception of Alexander the Great |
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Chapter IV The Material Fabrics of Memory and the Possession of the Past4.1 Early Explorers and the Beginnings of Indo-Afghan Archaeology; 4.2 The Case of Charles Masson; 4.3 Alexander Cunningham and the Archaeological Survey of India; 4.4 Sir Aurel Stein on Alexander's Tracks; 4.5 The Legacy of Colonial Archaeology; Chapter V Contested Memories and Collective Identities; 5.1 The Military Aspects of Alexander's Memory along the North-West Frontier; 5.2 Alexander's Descendants: Colonial Ethnography and the Strange Case of the Kafirs |
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5.3 Thomas Hungerford Holdich, Alexander's Memory, and the Political Geography of Empire5.4 Coming Full Circle: Holdich and the Memory of Frontier Exploration from Alexander to the British Empire; Chapter VI Epilogue; List of Figures; Bibliography; Ancient Texts (Editions, Commentaries, Translations); Primary Sources; Modern Studies; Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version resource |
| SUBJECT |
India -- History -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064919
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India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064915
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| Subject |
India
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783515124058 |
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3515124055 |
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