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Possessors and Possessed: Museums, Archaeology, and the Visualization of History in the Late Ottoman Empire
Wendy Shaw
Possessors and Possessed: Museums, Archaeology, and the Visualization of History in the Late Ottoman Empire
Wendy Shaw
Analyzes how and why museums emerged in the late-nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. This work argues that, rather than directly emulating post-Enlightenment museums of Western Europe, Ottoman elites produced categories of collection and modes of display appropriate to framing a new identity for the empire in the modern era.
280 pages, 43 b/w photographs, 2 maps
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | June 12, 2003 |
ISBN13 | 9780520233355 |
Publishers | University of California Press |
Pages | 280 |
Dimensions | 161 × 231 × 24 mm · 602 g |