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Ottoman Fake : An Essay on Forgers, Bureaucrats, and Philologists (18th-20th Centuries) / Marc Aymes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aymes, Marc, author.
- Series:
- Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
- Philological Encounters Monographs ; 5.
- Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2024
- Philological Encounters Monographs ; 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- Literature and Cultural Studies.
- Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
- Turkey.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (653 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- An Essay on Forgers, Bureaucrats, and Philologists (18th-20th Centuries)
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Coins, notes, fats, oils, soda waters, teas and wines, dyes and medicines, diplomas, certificates, patents and titles… Fakes were everywhere in the late Ottoman world. Did anyone care? As this book shows, calls to “discriminate the true from the fake”, a founding motto of philological practice from the 16th century onwards, prompted many encounters between forgers and bureaucrats in the late Ottoman world. Each tells a different story about how fakes occurred. Quoted and translated in full, reports of these forgery affairs shed new light on Ottoman state-society relations. They show that the taming of the fake has been crucial to the reforming of the state.
- Contents:
- Preface: Forgery in Action
- Fakes: In It From the Outset
- Apprehensions and Re-Apprehensions: Looking for Imprints
- Chapter 1 Symbolic Deaths, or Proscription
- Chapter 2 Sharp Sight, or the Reserves of Perspicacity
- Chapter 3 Conditioning What Cannot be Discerned
- Chapter 4 Extracts From the Realm of Particles: A Short Theory of Mixtures and Amalgamations
- Coda
- Characterization and Classification: The Morphology of Reports and Relationships
- Chapter 5 Forgers and Co.: Incrimination by the Gang
- Chapter 6 Confecting is Conceiving: Conviction by Instruments
- Chapter 7 The Work of Interrogation
- Afterword: Making the Most of Fakes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Analytical Table.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9789004705722
- OCLC:
- 1504766803
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004705722 DOI
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