From the Romans to the Railways - The Fate of Antiquities in Asia Minor

Traces the fate of antiquities and technologies in Asia Minor, their degradation, and re-use, including the eventual export of treasures to competing Western museums, using technologies re-imported from the West - roads, railways, shipping - into a modernising Ottoman Empire.

About the author

Michael Greenhalgh, M.A., Ph.D. (1967), from 1987 Sir William Dobell Foundation Professor of Art History at the Australian National University, now Visiting Fellow. Author of many books and papers on the survival and re-use of the antique around the Mediterranean, including Marble Past, Monumental Present (2009) and Constantinople to Córdoba (2012).

Product details

• Authors: Michael Greenhalgh
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.09.2013
• EAN: 9789004222199
• ISBN: 978-90-04-22219-9
• No. of pages: 492
• Weight: 879 g
• Series: Technology and Change in Histo
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History