Shaw, Wendy M. K., 1970-

Possessors and possessed : museums, archaeology, and the visualization of history in the late Ottoman Empire / Wendy M.K. Shaw. - Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2003. - xi, 269 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

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.

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Museums--History.--Turkey
Museums--Collection management--History.--Turkey

AM79.T8 / S53 2003

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