Download or read book Possessors and Possessed written by Wendy M.K. Shaw and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-06-12 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the creation of museums in Ottoman Turkey, which demonstrates that museum-building was both a product of and a response to European imperialism. Having learned to value their antiquities, the Ottomans proceeded to use them as visual manifestations of emerging nationalism.