Flooded Pasts: Unesco, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology

by William Carruthers

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501766449
• ISBN13: 9781501766442
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"