Between past and present: archaeology, ideology, and nationalism in the modern Middle East

✍ Scribed by Neil Asher Silberman

Publisher: Holt
Year: 1989
Tongue: English
Leaves: 302
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Frontmatter
Acknowledgments (page ix)
Introduction: The Power of the Past (page 1)
1. Yugoslavia and Greece: Who Were the Macedonians? (page 12)
2. Turkey: Searching for Troy (page 30)
3. Cyprus: Patterns in a Mosaic (page 51)
4. Cyprus: Crusaders, Venetians, and Sugar Cane (page 68)
5. Israel: The Fall of Masada (page 87)
6. Israel: Fighting a Losing Battle (page 102)
7. Israel: A Modern Cult of Relics (page 123)
8. Egypt: Strangers in the Land (page 137)
9. Egypt: An Uneasy Inheritance (page 153)
10. Egypt: Whose Elephantine? (page 169)
11. South Arabia: Lost Kingdoms and Caravan Routes (page 186)
12. Israel: Back to the Stone Age (page 209)
13. Israel: Tobacco Pipes, Cotton Prices, and Progress (page 228)
Epilogue: Looking Ahead (page 244)
Bibliographic Notes (page 249)
Index (page 275)

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