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Possessors and possessed : museums, archaeology, and the visualization of history in the late Ottoman Empire / Wendy M.K. Shaw.

By: Shaw, Wendy M. K, 1970-Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2003. Description: xi, 269 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN: 0520233352Subject(s): Museums -- Turkey -- History | Museums -- Collection management -- Turkey -- HistoryDDC classification: 069/.09561 LOC classification: AM79.T8 | S53 2003
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-260) and index.

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.