Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Author’s Note on Names, Dates, and Measurements xi
5. Introduction 1
6. CHAPTER ONE. Beginnings: The Nineteenth-Century Museum 13
7. CHAPTER TWO. Scholarship and the Imperial Museum 43
8. CHAPTER THREE. The Imperial Museum and Its Visitors 65
9. CHAPTER FOUR. The Ottoman Reading Public and Antiquities 95
10. CHAPTER FIVE. The Landscape of Labor 135
11. CHAPTER SIX. Dual Settlements 175
12. Epilogue: Enduring Dilemmas 215
13. Notes 223
14. Bibliography 245
15. Index 255