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Scramble for the past : a story of archaeology in the Ottoman Empire, 1753-1914 / edited by Zainab Bahrani, Zeynep Çelik, Edhem Eldem ; [translations by Willard Wood, Leyla Tonguç Basmacı, and Doolie Sloman].

Contributor(s): Bahrani, Zainab, 1962- | Çelik, Zeynep | Eldem, EdhemMaterial type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French, Greek, Modern (1453- ), Turkish Publication details: Istanbul : SALT, c2011. Description: 519 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims., col. maps ; 25 cmISBN: 9789944731270; 9944731277Other title: Story of archaeology in the Ottoman Empire, 1753-1914Subject(s): Archaeology -- Turkey -- History | Archaeology -- Middle East -- History | Archaeology and state -- Turkey -- History | Archaeology and state -- Middle East -- History | Turkey -- Antiquities | Middle East -- Antiquities | Europe -- Relations -- Turkey | Turkey -- Relations -- Europe | Europe -- Relations -- Middle East | Middle East -- Relations -- EuropeLOC classification: DR431 | .S373 2011Online resources: Book review (H-Net)
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.
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"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.

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.

Some contributions presented in translation from French, Greek or Turkish.