{"product_id":"the-alhambra-at-the-crossroads-of-history-eastern-and-western-visions-in-the-long-nineteenth-century-9781399524872","title":"The Alhambra at the Crossroads of History: Eastern and Western Visions in the Long Nineteenth Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eA growing flow of visitors in the 19th century turned the Alhambra into a touristic destination and a major trope of Orientalism, created by Western authors and artists from Fran?ois-Ren? de Chateaubriand to Owen Jones and from Washington Irving to Jean-L?on G?r?me. Yet behind this Western infatuation lie scores of 'Oriental' observers of the monument, as revealed by its visitors' book, kept since 1829. \u003cbr\u003eThis book uses this untapped source to analyse the perceptions of the Alhambra by multiple actors, including Westerners, Spaniards, Maghrebines, Ottoman Turks, Christian Arabs and Muslim Arabs from the Mashreq. In doing so, it reveals the existence of significant variations in both Western and Oriental perceptions of the monument, from 'Oriental Orientalism' to Arab nationalism. Examining the contemporary press, memoirs, travelogues and photographs - as well as the visitors' book - it uses the Alhambra to build a history of the complex and entangled relations between East and West, North and South, Islam and Christianity, centre and periphery during the heyday of Orientalism and Western hegemony.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdhem Eldem is a professor in the Department of History of Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. He has also taught at Berkeley, Harvard, EHESS, EPHE, ENS, Columbia and has held the International Chair of Turkish and Ottoman Studies et the Collège de France. Among his fields of interest are the Levant trade in the eighteenth century, Ottoman funerary epigraphy, the development of an urban bourgeoisie in Istanbul, the history of the Ottoman Bank, the history of archaeology in the Ottoman Empire, late-nineteenth-century Ottoman first-person narratives and biographies, the history of photography in the Ottoman Empire and the interaction between Westernization and Orientalism. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eL'Empire ottoman\u003c\/i\u003e (PuF, 2022), \u003ci\u003eL'Alhambra. À la croisée des histoires\u003c\/i\u003e (Belles Lettres, 2021), \u003ci\u003eL'Empire ottoman et la Turquie face à l'Occident\u003c\/i\u003e (Fayard, 2018), \u003ci\u003eCamera Ottomana\u003c\/i\u003e (Koç University, 2015), \u003ci\u003eScramble for the Past\u003c\/i\u003e (SALT, 2011), \u003ci\u003eUn Ottoman en Orient\u003c\/i\u003e (Actes Sud, 2010), \u003ci\u003eThe Ottoman City between East and West\u003c\/i\u003e (Cambridge University Press, 1999), \u003ci\u003eA History of the Ottoman Bank\u003c\/i\u003e (Ottoman Bank, 1999), \u003ci\u003eFrench Trade in Istanbul in the Eighteenth Century\u003c\/i\u003e (Brill, 1999).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50488774721810,"sku":"9781399524872","price":146.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0ed02225-19c4-4335-acc1-86afaaf53d59.jpg?v=1730483179","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-alhambra-at-the-crossroads-of-history-eastern-and-western-visions-in-the-long-nineteenth-century-9781399524872","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}