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

By: Shaw, Wendy M. K, 1970-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2003Description: xi, 269 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Museums -- Turkey -- History | Museums -- Collection management -- Turkey -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 069/.09561 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.

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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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2005. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.