Obelisk - Table of Contents

April 2009
7 1/2 x 9 1/2, 384 pp., 131 illus.
$27.95/£18.95 (PAPER)
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ISBN-10:
0-262-51270-X
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-51270-1

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	introduction Sample Chapter - Download PDF (3.95 MB)	7

1	The Sacred Obelisks of Ancient Egypt	13

2	The Obelisks of Rome	35

3	Survival, Revival, Transformations: Middle Ages to Renaissance	61

4	The High Renaissance: Ancient Wisdom and Imperium	85

5	Moving the Vatican Obelisk	103

6	Changing the Stone: Egyptology, Antiquarianism, and Magic	141

7	Baroque Readings: Athanasius Kircher and Obelisks	161

8	Grandeur: Real and Delusional	179

9	The Eighteenth Century: New Perspectives	205

10	Napoleon, Champollion, and Egypt	229

11	Cleopatra’s Needles: London and New York	257

12	The Twentieth Century and Beyond	283

	acknowledgments	297

	notes	301

	bibliography	339

	illustrations Sample Chapter - Download PDF (1.45 MB)	365

	the wandering obelisks: a cheat sheet	371

	index Sample Chapter - Download PDF (1.47 MB)	375

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