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Book SynopsisThe essays in this book place Edward Elbridge Salisbury in the context of 19th-century Orientalism, with emphasis on the interconnected growth of Assyriology in Northern Europe and America. Salisbury was a founding figure in the development of ancient Near Eastern, Arabic, and Sanskrit studies. 3 colour and 4 b&w illustrations.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
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Salisbury and Yale (Karen Polinger Foster)
Orientalism's Lonely Years: The Case of Edward Salisbury (Suzanne Marchand)
Edward Salisbury and A. I. Silvestre de Sacy (Benjamin R. Foster)
Assyriological Peripheries: Early Mesopotamian Studies in Scandinavia (Gojko Barmamovic)
Between Microphilology, Academic Politics, and the Aryan Jesus: Paul Haupt, Hermann Hilprecht, and the Birth of American Assyriology (Eckart Frahm)
Appendix I: Salisbury's Letter of Appointment
Appendix II: Salisbury's Seals, 160 Years Later: Two Neo-Assyrian Cylinders from AOS to YBC (Agnete Wisti Lassen)
Notes on Contributors
