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Author Shaw, Wendy M. K., 1970-

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

Imprint Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2003.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xi, 269 p. : ill., maps.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-260) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Museums -- Turkey -- History.
Museums -- Collection management -- Turkey -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0520233352

 
    
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