Scramble for the past : a story of archaeology in the Ottoman Empire,1753-1914 /

Scramble for the past : a story of archaeology in the Ottoman Empire,1753-1914 /

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Other Authors: Bahrani, Zainab, 1962-, Çelik, Zeynep, Eldem, Edhem., Wood, Willard, Tonguç Basmacı, Leyla, Sloman, Doolie

Format: Book

Language: English
French
Greek
Turkish

Published: Istanbul : SALT, c2011.

Subjects:

Archaeology > Turkey > History.
Archaeology > Middle East > History.
Europe > Relations > Turkey.
Middle East > Antiquities.
Turkey > Antiquities.

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Call Number: DR431 .S373 2011

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.