A Historical Archaeology of the Ottoman Empire Breaking New Ground /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Baram, Uzi (Editor), Carroll, Lynda (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002.
• Series: Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Culture > Study and teaching.; History.; Anthropology.; Archaeology.; Social Sciences.; History, general.; Regional and Cultural Studies.

Archaeology in the Middle East and the Balkans rarely focuses on the recent past; as a result, archaeologists have largely ignored the material remains of the Ottoman Empire. Drawing on a wide variety of case studies and essays, this volume documents the emerging field of Ottoman archaeology and the...

Table of Contents:

• The Future of the Ottoman Past
• From Archaeology to a “History from Below”
• Agriculture and Rural Settlement in Ottoman Crete, 1669–1898
• The Archaeology of Ottoman Ti’innik
• Dendrochronologically Dated Ottoman Monuments
• Entangled Objects from the Palestinian Past
• Toward an Archaeology of Non-Elite Consumption in Late Ottoman Anatolia
• Trade, Subsistence, and Ideology in the Ottoman Empire
• The Sadana Island Shipwreck
• Daily Life in the Shadow of Empire
• Transformations, Readings, and Visions of the Ottoman Mosque
• Prospects
• Sultans, Merchants, and Minorities
• Diverse Approaches to the Ottoman Past.