@article {Godlewska:March 1995:0020-2754:5,
	author = "Godlewska A.",
	title = "Map, text and image. The mentality of enlightened conquerors: a new look at the Description de l'Egypte",
	journal = "Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers",
	volume = "20",
	year = "March 1995",
	abstract = "<P>This paper takes a new look at the Description de l'Egypte in the light of the theses of Said, Mitchell and Bruno Latour on intellectual conquest. It argues that in addition to being the product of an historically remarkable scientific exploration, the Description was a sophisticated and purposive interpretation of Egypt which reflects as much about the participants' conception of themselves as about Egypt. The Description has been underestimated by historians in at least two ways: its power as a tool of imperial aggression through its attempts to 'reorient' the country economically and politically and through 'representation' has not been explored; and the considerable ideological coherence of the work has been missed by scholars interested in only one or a small selection of fields represented in the Description. A comprehensive look at map, image and text reveal a construction of Egypt designed to replace Egypt itself. The Description creates the Egypt that could be claimed and taken home and mathematically and rigorously interpreted in the silence of French libraries, laboratories and museums without the difficult complications associated with colonialism, subject peoples and the bizarreries of other cultures.</P>",
	pages = "5-28(24)",
	url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/rgs/tibg/1995/00000020/00000001/art00001"
}