Napoleon's Egypt: Invading The Middle East - Reenactor.ru

FURTHER READINGRecent good biographies of Napoléon Bonaparte include those of Alex Schom andRobert B. Asprey. Readers seeking a better understanding of eighteenth-century Franceshould look at the works of Robert Darnton, Lynn Hunt, Roger Chartier, D. M. G.Sutherland, and Howard Brown, among many others. French attitudes toward the MiddleEast in this period are discussed by the late Edward Said in his Orientalism (NewYork: Vintage Books, 1978, 2003 [with a new introduction]).English-language readers desiring more background on modern Egypt should consultAfaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot’s Short History of Modern Egypt (Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press, 1985) and her Egypt in the Reign of Muhammad Ali (Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press, 1984). Also invaluable is M. W. Daly, ed., The Cambridge Historyof Egypt, vol. 2: Modern Egypt, from 1517 to the End of the Twentieth Century (Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 1998). The houses of the beys and their Mamluks are analyzedin Jane Hathaway, The Politics of Households in Ottoman Egypt: The Rise of theQazdaglis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002). For our period, a primarysource is available in paperback: ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti, Napoleon in Egypt: Al-Jabarti’s Chronicle of the French Occupation, 1798, trans. Shmuel Moreh (Princeton andNew York: Markus Wiener Publishing, 1995). J. Christopher Herold, Bonaparte in Egypt(New York: Harper & Row, 1962) republished by Pen and Sword in 2005, remains valuabledespite the author’s dismissive attitude toward and relative lack of knowledge ofArab culture, and has the advantage of covering the entire three years of the French occupation.For the military history side, see David G. Chandler, The Campaigns of Napoleon(New York: Macmillan, 1966).Several of the French memoirs have been translated, including Jean-PierreDoguereau, Guns in the Desert: General Jean-Pierre Doguereau’s Journal of Napoleon’sEgyptian Expedition, trans. Rosemary Brindle (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2002), andJoseph-Marie Moiret, Memoirs of Napoleon’s Egyptian Expedition, 1798–1801, trans. RosemaryBrindle (London: Greenhill Books, 2001).