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Plundered empire : acquiring antiquities from Ottoman lands / by Michael Greenhalgh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Greenhalgh, Michael, author.
- Series:
- Heritage and identity (Series) ; v. 6.
- Heritage and identity ; volume 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Classical antiquities--Destruction and pillage.
- Classical antiquities.
- Classical antiquities thefts.
- Museums--Acquisitions--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Museums.
- Museums--Acquisitions.
- Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
- Turkey.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden : Brill, [2019]
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], �2019.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- PART 1. Planning shopping lists, ambassadors and consuls, sites and scholars
- 1. Setting the scene
- 2. Armchair collectors and shopping lists
- 3. Ambassadors, consuls and firmans
- 4. Identifying sites and antiquities in Ottoman lands
- PART 2. Discovering and digging antiquities
- 5. Antiquities and the locals
- 6. Digging opportunities
- 7. Vandalism
- 8. Mediterranean islands
- 9. Sites and travellers in European and Asiatic Turkey
- 10. Syria and Mesopotamia
- 11. Egypt and North Africa
- 12. Athens under the Ottomans
- 13. Athens under the Greeks
- 14. Mainland Greece
- PART 3. Transporting antiquities, competing museums, imperial embargoes
- 15. Shipping antiquities home
- 16. Museums and international competition
- 17. The empire and Greece strike back against governments and travellers
- Conclusion : the rapacity of Verres!
- Appendix 1 : Partial chronology of the Ottoman Empire
- Appendix 2 : Ambassadors, consuls, their aides and antiquities.
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 12, 2019).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 900440547X
- 9789004405479
- Publisher Number:
- 99988119767
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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