Scramble for the past
Subtitle: a story of archaeology in the Ottoman Empire, 1753-1914
By: edited by Zainab Bahrani, Zeynep Çelik, Edhem Eldem ; [translations by Willard Wood, Leyla Tonguç Basmacı, and Doolie Sloman]
Publisher: SALT
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Istanbul
Language: eng
Number of pages: 519
ISBN-13: 9789944731270
Subjects: Archaeology; History; Antiquities; Archaeology and state; Relations
Other titles: Story of archaeology in the Ottoman Empire, 1753-1914
Notes: "This book has been published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Scramble for the Past: A Story of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire, 1753-1914,' at SALT Galata, Istanbul, November 22, 2011-March 11, 2012"--T.p. verso.

Also published in Turkish as: Geçmişe hücum : Osmanıt İmparatorluğu'nda arkeolojinin öyküsü, 1753-1914.

Includes bibliographical references.

Some contributions presented in translation from French, Greek or Turkish.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : archaeology and empire / Zainab Bahrani, Zeynep Çelik, and Edhem Eldem; title: Interlude : a late nineteenth-century Ottoman painting and novella; title: Indigenous archaeologies in Ottoman Greece / Yannis Hamilakis; title: "An inconsiderate love of the arts" : the spoils of Greek antiquities, 1780-1820 / George Tolias; title: Interlude : an Egyptian historian observes British archaeologists; title: The Layard enterprise : Victorian archaeology and informal imperialism in Mesopotamia / Shawn Malley; title: Untold tales of Mesopotamian discovery / Zainab Bahrani; title: Archaeological travels in Greece and Asia Minor : on the good use of ruins in nineteenth-century France / Sophie Basch; title: The rediscovery of Constantinople and the beginnings of Byzantine archaeology : a historiographic survey / Robert Ousterhout; title: Ernest Renan's expedition to Phoenicia / Henry Laurens; title: Interlude : Osman Hamdi and Ernest Renan; title: The Venus de Milo : genesis of a modern myth / Philippe Jockey; title: The "rediscovery" of Baalbek : a metaphor for empire in the nineteenth century / Ussama Makdisi; title: From blissful indifference to anguished concern : Ottoman perceptions of antiquities, 1799-1869 / Edhem Eldem; title: Archaeology and cultural politics : Ottoman-Austrian relations / Hubert Szemethy; title: Interlude : the stories behind a letter; title: Ernst Herzfeld and the excavations at Samarra / Filiz Çakir Phillip; title: A fin-de-sìecle reconnaissance of Seljuk Anatolia : Friedrich Sarre and his Reise in Kleinasien / Oya Pancaroğlu; title: Interlude : Halil Edhem on the museum of pious foundations; title: From mausoleum to museum : resurrecting antiquity for Ottoman modernity / Wendy M.K. Shaw; title: Defining empire's patrimony : late Ottoman perceptions of antiquities / Zeynep Çelik; title: Interlude : the museum as a civic tool.