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Dear CONTEMP-HIST-ARCH Subscribers, From the University of Texas Press Free postage to UK customers http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/about-antiquities About Antiquities Politics of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire Zeynep Çelik “This book will appeal not only to specialists on Turkey, the Ottoman Empire, and the Middle East but also to scholars and general readers interested in the history of antiquities, museums, heritage, imperialism, nationalism, and globalism. No existing work offers serious competition in its scope and approach.”–Donald Malcolm Reid, Georgia State University and University of Washington Antiquities have been pawns in empire-building and global rivalries; power struggles; assertions of national and cultural identities; and cross-cultural exchanges, cooperation, abuses, and misunderstandings—all with the underlying element of financial gain. Indeed, “who owns antiquity?” is a contentious question in many of today’s international conflicts. About Antiquities offers an interdisciplinary study of the relationship between archaeology and empire-building around the turn of the twentieth century. Starting at Istanbul and focusing on antiquities from the Ottoman territories, Zeynep Çelik examines the popular discourse surrounding claims to the past in London, Paris, Berlin, and New York. She compares and contrasts the experiences of two museums—Istanbul’s Imperial Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art—that aspired to emulate European collections and gain the prestige and power of owning the material fragments of ancient history. Going beyond institutions, Çelik also unravels the complicated interactions among individuals—Westerners, Ottoman decision makers and officials, and local laborers—and their competing stakes in antiquities from such legendary sites as Ephesus, Pergamon, and Babylon. Recovering perspectives that have been lost in histories of archaeology, particularly those of the excavation laborers whose voices have never been heard, About Antiquities provides important historical context for current controversies surrounding nation-building and the ownership of the past. Zeynep Çelik is a distinguished professor of architecture at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and the Federated Department of History at the NJIT and Rutgers-Newark. Her award-winning publications include Empire, Architecture, and the City: French-Ottoman Encounters, 1830–1914 and The Remaking of Istanbul: Portrait of an Ottoman City in the Nineteenth Century. University of Texas Press | November 2016 | 282pp | 9781477310618 | Paperback | £23.99* 20% discount with this code: CSL417ABAN** *Price subject to change. **Offer excludes the USA, Canada & South America. Author and independent bookshop blog - Bookscombined.com<https://bookscombined.com/> Follow us on Twitter @CAP_Ltd<http://twitter.com/#!/CAP_Ltd>, Facebook Combined Academic Publishers<https://business.facebook.com/Combined-Academic-Publishers-196269570500/?business_id=10155394879930501> Sign up to our newsletter email alerts here<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/content/34-subscribe-to-our-newsletter> -------------------------- contemp-hist-arch is a list for news and events in contemporary and historical archaeology, and for announcements relating to the CHAT conference group. ------- For email subscription options see: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/archives/contemp-hist-arch.html ------- Visit the CHAT website for more information and for future meeting dates: http://www.contemp-hist-arch.ac.uk --------------------------