An edition of Scramble for the past (2011)

Scramble for the past

a story of archaeology in the Ottoman Empire, 1753-1914

Scramble for the past
Zainab Bahrani, Zeynep Çelik, ...
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An edition of Scramble for the past (2011)

Scramble for the past

a story of archaeology in the Ottoman Empire, 1753-1914

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SALT
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English
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519

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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.

Edition Notes

"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"--T.p. 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.

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Istanbul
Other Titles
Story of archaeology in the Ottoman Empire, 1753-1914

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Library of Congress
DR431 .S373 2011

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Pagination
519 p.
Number of pages
519

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL31064096M
ISBN 10
9944731277
ISBN 13
9789944731270
LCCN
2012341365
OCLC/WorldCat
769143696

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