Flooded Pasts

Flooded Pasts
Title Flooded Pasts PDF eBook
Author William Carruthers
Publisher Cornell University Press
Pages 223
Release 2022-12-15
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1501766457

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Flooded Pasts examines a world famous yet critically underexamined event—UNESCO's International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia (1960–80)—to show how the project, its genealogy, and its aftermath not only propelled archaeology into the postwar world but also helped to "recolonize" it. In this book, William Carruthers asks how postwar decolonization took shape and what role a colonial discipline like archaeology—forged in the crucible of imperialism—played as the "new nations" asserted themselves in the face of the global Cold War. As the Aswan High Dam became the centerpiece of Gamal Abdel Nasser's Egyptian revolution, the Nubian campaign sought to salvage and preserve ancient temples and archaeological sites from the new barrage's floodwaters. Conducted in the neighboring regions of Egyptian and Sudanese Nubia, the project built on years of Nubian archaeological work conducted under British occupation and influence. During that process, the campaign drew on the scientific racism that guided those earlier surveys, helping to consign Nubians themselves to state-led resettlement and modernization programs, even as UNESCO created a picturesque archaeological landscape fit for global media and tourist consumption. Flooded Pasts describes how colonial archaeological and anthropological practices—and particularly their archival and documentary manifestations—created an ancient Nubia severed from the region's population. As a result, the Nubian campaign not only became fundamental to the creation of UNESCO's 1972 World Heritage Convention but also exposed questions about the goals of archaeology and heritage and whether the colonial origins of these fields will ever be overcome.

Noah's Flood

Noah's Flood
Title Noah's Flood PDF eBook
Author William Ryan
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 324
Release 1998
Genre History
ISBN 0684859203

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Basing their research on geophysics, oral legends, and archaeology, the authors offer evidence that the flood in the book of Genesis actually occurred.

Flooded Pasts

Flooded Pasts
Title Flooded Pasts PDF eBook
Author William Carruthers
Publisher Cornell University Press
Pages 335
Release 2022-12-15
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1501766465

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Flooded Pasts examines a world famous yet critically underexamined event—UNESCO's International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia (1960–80)—to show how the project, its genealogy, and its aftermath not only propelled archaeology into the postwar world but also helped to "recolonize" it. In this book, William Carruthers asks how postwar decolonization took shape and what role a colonial discipline like archaeology—forged in the crucible of imperialism—played as the "new nations" asserted themselves in the face of the global Cold War. As the Aswan High Dam became the centerpiece of Gamal Abdel Nasser's Egyptian revolution, the Nubian campaign sought to salvage and preserve ancient temples and archaeological sites from the new barrage's floodwaters. Conducted in the neighboring regions of Egyptian and Sudanese Nubia, the project built on years of Nubian archaeological work conducted under British occupation and influence. During that process, the campaign drew on the scientific racism that guided those earlier surveys, helping to consign Nubians themselves to state-led resettlement and modernization programs, even as UNESCO created a picturesque archaeological landscape fit for global media and tourist consumption. Flooded Pasts describes how colonial archaeological and anthropological practices—and particularly their archival and documentary manifestations—created an ancient Nubia severed from the region's population. As a result, the Nubian campaign not only became fundamental to the creation of UNESCO's 1972 World Heritage Convention but also exposed questions about the goals of archaeology and heritage and whether the colonial origins of these fields will ever be overcome.

Oil and Marble

Oil and Marble
Title Oil and Marble PDF eBook
Author Stephanie Storey
Publisher Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Pages 354
Release 2016-03-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1628726393

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"From 1501 to 1505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti both lived and worked in Florence. Leonardo was a charming, handsome fifty year-old at the peak of his career. Michelangelo was a temperamental sculptor in his mid-twenties, desperate to make a name for himself. The two despise each other."--Front jacket flap.

A History of the Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey

A History of the Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
Title A History of the Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 368
Release 2000
Genre Hydrology
ISBN

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A History of the Water Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey

A History of the Water Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey
Title A History of the Water Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 368
Release 1990
Genre Government publications
ISBN

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A History of the Water Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey: 1966-79, Integrating the disciplines

A History of the Water Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey: 1966-79, Integrating the disciplines
Title A History of the Water Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey: 1966-79, Integrating the disciplines PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 360
Release 1990
Genre Hydrology
ISBN

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