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Scramble for the past : a story of archaeology in the Ottoman Empire, 1753-1914
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- Creator
- edited by Zainab Bahrani, Zeynep Çelik, Edhem Eldem ; [translations by Willard Wood, Leyla Tonguç Basmacı, and Doolie Sloman]
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Istanbul : SALT, 2011
- ©2011
- Physical Details
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- 519 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, color maps ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9789944731270, 9944731277
- OCLC
- ocn769143696
- "This book has been published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Scramble for the Past: A Story of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire, 1753-1914,' at SALT Galata, Istanbul, November 22, 2011-March 11, 2012"--Title page verso.
- Also published in Turkish as: Geçmişe hücum : Osmanıt İmparatorluğu'nda arkeolojinin öyküsü, 1753-1914.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Some contributions presented in translation from French, Greek or Turkish.
- Introduction : archaeology and empire / Zainab Bahrani, Zeynep Çelik, and Edhem Eldem -- Interlude : a late nineteenth-century Ottoman painting and novella -- Indigenous archaeologies in Ottoman Greece / Yannis Hamilakis -- "An inconsiderate love of the arts" : the spoils of Greek antiquities, 1780-1820 / George Tolias -- Interlude : an Egyptian historian observes British archaeologists -- The Layard enterprise : Victorian archaeology and informal imperialism in Mesopotamia / Shawn Malley -- Untold tales of Mesopotamian discovery / Zainab Bahrani -- Archaeological travels in Greece and Asia Minor : on the good use of ruins in nineteenth-century France / Sophie Basch -- The rediscovery of Constantinople and the beginnings of Byzantine archaeology : a historiographic survey / Robert Ousterhout -- Ernest Renan's expedition to Phoenicia / Henry Laurens -- Interlude : Osman Hamdi and Ernest Renan -- The Venus de Milo : genesis of a modern myth / Philippe Jockey -- The "rediscovery" of Baalbek : a metaphor for empire in the nineteenth century / Ussama Makdisi -- From blissful indifference to anguished concern : Ottoman perceptions of antiquities, 1799-1869 / Edhem Eldem -- Archaeology and cultural politics : Ottoman-Austrian relations / Hubert Szemethy -- Interlude : the stories behind a letter -- Ernst Herzfeld and the excavations at Samarra / Filiz Çakir Phillip -- A fin-de-sìecle reconnaissance of Seljuk Anatolia : Friedrich Sarre and his Reise in Kleinasien / Oya Pancaroğlu -- Interlude : Halil Edhem on the museum of pious foundations -- From mausoleum to museum : resurrecting antiquity for Ottoman modernity / Wendy M.K. Shaw -- Defining empire's patrimony : late Ottoman perceptions of antiquities / Zeynep Çelik -- Interlude : the museum as a civic tool
Subjects
- Archaeology -- Turkey -- History.
- Archaeology -- Middle East -- History.
- Turkey -- Antiquities.
- Middle East -- Antiquities.
- Archaeology and state -- Turkey -- History.
- Archaeology and state -- Middle East -- History.
- Europe -- Relations -- Turkey.
- Turkey -- Relations -- Europe.
- Europe -- Relations -- Middle East.
- Middle East -- Relations -- Europe.