1st Edition
Excavating Power Archaeological Labour, Imperial Narratives, and Identities in Eastern Mediterranean (19th-20th c.)
Introduction: Digging in the Eastern Mediterranean: antiquities, workforce and identities in Ottoman and post-Ottoman times
Simona Troilo
1. Condemned to the Past: peasants, Orientalists, anthropologists and Egyptologists in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Egypt
Paolo Del Vesco
2. Land, indigeneity and archaeological ruins in Ottoman Palestine: the people of Beit Jibrin and the Palestine Exploration Fund
Sarah Irving
3. Ghosts between the lines: local workers in Italian archaeological excavations in Crete (1899–1910)
Simona Troilo
4. A tale of two cities: Athens, Thessaloniki and the incorporation of Byzantium in the Greek national imagination
Yuri A. Marano
5. Historia (non?) grata: Byzantine archaeology of Istanbul during the First World War and the Allied occupation
Ayşe Ercan Kydonakis
Biography
Simona Troilo is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the University of L’Aquila. She holds a PhD from the European University Institute (Florence) and is the author of numerous articles on archaeology and imperialism; the construction of "Otherness" through the remains of the past; the relationship between materiality, narrativity and visuality; the ideological use of colonial antiquities by Italian fascism; the restitution of archaeological finds to former colonies by the Italian Republic. Her last book is Pietre d’oltremare. Scavare, conservare, immaginare l’Impero (1899–1940), Rome-Bari, Laterza, 2021.
