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Incidental Archaeologists: French Officers and the Rediscovery of Roman North Africa

Incidental Archaeologists: French Officers and the Rediscovery of Roman North Africa

Effros, Bonnie

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ArchaeologyAncient RomeFrench History

ISBN10: 1501761676
ISBN13: 9781501761676
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Dec 15 2021
Pages: 396
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In Incidental Archaeologists, Bonnie Effros examines the archaeological contributions of nineteenth-century French military officers, who, raised on classical accounts of warfare and often trained as cartographers, developed an interest in the Roman remains they encountered when commissioned in the colony of Algeria. By linking the study of the Roman past to French triumphant narratives of the conquest and occupation of the Maghreb, Effros demonstrates how Roman archaeology in the forty years following the conquest of the Ottoman Regencies of Algiers and Constantine in the 1830s helped lay the groundwork for the creation of a new identity for French military and civilian settlers.

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