Ottoman Fake : An Essay on Forgers, Bureaucrats, and Philologists (18th-20th Centuries) /

Ottoman Fake : An Essay on Forgers, Bureaucrats, and Philologists (18th-20th Centuries) /

Coins, notes, fats, oils, soda waters, teas and wines, dyes and medicines, diplomas, certificates, patents and titles... Fakes were everywhere in the late Ottoman world. Did anyone care? As this book shows, calls to "discriminate the true from the fake", a founding motto of philological pr...

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Main Author: Aymes, Marc (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
Philological Encounters Monographs ; 5.

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History.
Literature and Cultural Studies.

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Call Number: D410

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface: Forgery in Action
  • Fakes: In It From the Outset
  • Apprehensions and Re-Apprehensions: Looking for Imprints
  • Chapter 1 Symbolic Deaths, or Proscription
  • Chapter 2 Sharp Sight, or the Reserves of Perspicacity
  • Chapter 3 Conditioning What Cannot be Discerned
  • Chapter 4 Extracts From the Realm of Particles: A Short Theory of Mixtures and Amalgamations
  • Coda
  • Characterization and Classification: The Morphology of Reports and Relationships
  • Chapter 5 Forgers and Co.: Incrimination by the Gang
  • Chapter 6 Confecting is Conceiving: Conviction by Instruments
  • Chapter 7 The Work of Interrogation
  • Afterword: Making the Most of Fakes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Analytical Table.