AuthorShaw, Wendy M. K., 1970-
TitlePossessors and possessed [electronic resource] : museums, archaeology, and the visualization of history in the late Ottoman Empire / Wendy M.K. Shaw
Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003
Connect tohttp://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=90531
Descript xi, 269 p. : ill., maps

CONTENT

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


SUBJECT

  1. Museums -- Turkey -- History
  2. Museums -- Collection management -- Turkey -- History
  3. Electronic books.