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Zeynep Çelik, About Antiquities: Politics of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016, xi + 268 pp.

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Zeynep Çelik, About Antiquities: Politics of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016, xi + 268 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 October 2019

Paolo Girardelli*
Affiliation:
Boğaziçi University

Abstract

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References

1 Çelik, Zeynep, The Remaking of İstanbul: Portrait of an Ottoman City in the Nineteenth Century (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1986)Google Scholar.

2 Çelik, Zeynep, Displaying the Orient: Architecture of Islam at Nineteenth-century World’s Fairs (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and Oxford: University of California Press, 1992)Google Scholar.

3 Çelik, Zeynep, Urban Forms and Colonial Confrontations: Algiers under French Rule (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1997)Google Scholar.

4 Çelik, Zeynep, Empire, Architecture, and the City: French-Ottoman Encounters, 1830–1914 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008)Google Scholar.

5 Bahrani, Zainab, Çelik, Zeynep, and Eldem, Edhem, eds., Scramble for the Past: A Story of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire, 1753–1914 (İstanbul: SALT, 2011)Google Scholar.

6 Some of the most relevant titles in this context are Reid, Donald Malcolm, Whose Pharaohs? Archaeology, Museums, and Egyptian National Identity from Napoleon to World War I (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2002)Google Scholar; Shaw, Wendy M.K., Possessors and Possessed: Museums, Archaeology, and the Visualization of History in the Late Ottoman Empire (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2003)Google Scholar; and Cuno, James, Who Owns Antiquity? Museums and the Battle over Our Ancient Heritage (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008)Google Scholar. In a different vein, one might also point out the groundbreaking Herzfeld, Michael, Ours Once More: Folklore, Ideology, and the Making of Modern Greece (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982)Google Scholar.

7 Brecht, Bertolt, The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht, trans. and ed. Kuhn, Tom and Constantine, David (New York: Norton/Liveright Publishing, 2019)Google Scholar.