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Possessors and possessed museums, archaeology, and the visualization of history in the late Ottoman Empire / by Shaw, Wendy M. K., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Moving toward the museum : the collection of antique spolia -- Parallel collections of weapons and antiquities -- The rise of the imperial museum -- The dialectic of law and infringement -- Technologies of collection : railroads and cameras -- Antiquities collections in the imperial museum -- Islamic arts in imperial collections -- Military collections in the late empire -- Islamic and archaeological antiquities after the Young Turk Revolution.…”
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Exhibiting the past : historical memory and the politics of museums in postsocialist China / by Denton, Kirk A., 1955-

Table of Contents: “…National origins and local identity: museums of premodern history -- Exhibiting the revolution: the museum of the Chinese revolution -- Commodification and nostalgia: revolutionary history in the era of the market economy -- Martyrdom and memory: monuments, memorials, and museums for dead heroes -- Martial glory and the power of the state: military museums -- Heroic resistance and victims of atrocity: negotiating the memory of Japanese imperialism -- Heroic models and exemplary leaders: memorial halls -- Literary politics and cultural heritage: modern literature museums -- Ethnic minorities and the construction of national identity: ethnographic museums -- Revolutionary memory and national landscape: Red tourism -- Museums of the future: municipal urban planning exhibition halls.…”
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A history of place in the digital age / by Dunn, Stuart E.

Table of Contents: “…The structure of geodata; Introduction; From paper to digital citation; The gazetteer as an imperial tool; Gazetteers and the WWW; Case study: Cyprus; Conclusion; References; 8. …”
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Nobel Prizes that changed medicine

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The Nobel Prize the first 100 years /

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