On Alexander's Tracks: Exploring Geographies, Memories, and Cultural Identities along the North-West Frontier of British India in the Nineteenth Century - Couverture rigide

Schliephake, Christopher

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3515124004 ISBN 13 : 9783515124003

Editeur : Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 2019

Synopsis

How did British officers, geographers, and adventurers use the motif of 'travelling' in Alexander's 'footsteps' during their respective missions in Central Asia? Christopher Schliephake shows how the reception of Alexander the Great became an integral part of imperial self-representation and colonial identity in the nineteenth century. As Schliephake argues, the experiential framework of the exploration and conquest of regions like the Punjab or Afghanistan turned the abstract notion of following in Alexander's 'tracks' into a highly relevant category for negotiating the relationship between the present and the past, Europe and Asia. However, the further the British explorers advanced, they realized that Alexander had already been waiting for them - he came in the guise of Sikander or Iskander and some local indigenous tribes even claimed direct descent from him. The way the writings of the travelers reacted to the cultural confrontation between a 'Western' and an 'Eastern' Alexander will be one of the main themes of this book.

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À propos de l'auteur

Christopher Schliephake ist wissenschaftlicher Assistent am Lehrstuhl fur Alte Geschichte an der Universitat Augsburg.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3515124004
• ISBN 13: 9783515124003
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 311
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible