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Possessors and possessed : museums, archaeology, and the visualization of history in the late Ottoman Empire /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shaw, Wendy M. K., 1970-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2003]
Subjects:
Museums > Turkey > History.
Museums > Collection management > Turkey > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Moving toward the museum : the collection of antique spolia
  • Parallel collections of weapons and antiquities
  • The rise of the imperial museum
  • The dialectic of law and infringement
  • Technologies of collection : railroads and cameras
  • Antiquities collections in the imperial museum
  • Islamic arts in imperial collections
  • Military collections in the late empire
  • Islamic and archaeological antiquities after the Young Turk revolution.