Architecture, expertise and the German construction of the Ottoman railway network, 1868-1919 : a dissertation / presented by Peter Hewitt Christensen.

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Christensen, Peter (Peter Hewitt)

Title & Author:

Architecture, expertise and the German construction of the Ottoman railway network, 1868-1919 : a dissertation / presented by Peter Hewitt Christensen.

Publication:

Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest LLC, 2014.

Description:

2 volumes (lxvii, 1256 pages) : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm

Notes:
Reproduction of: Thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard University, 2014.
Includes bibliographical references (volume 1, pages 529-627).
Also available in electronic format.

Summary:

The dissertation examines the production of knowledge and architecture through the German-sponsored construction of the Ottoman railway network, comprising four discrete projects: the railways of European Turkey, the Anatolian railways, the Baghdad railway and the Hejaz railway and its Palestinian tributaries. The German construction of the Ottoman railway network is an historic event that proffers the opportunity to critically reconsider the epistemological tenets of expertise in broader political, economic and cultural structures distinct from the normative creative processes that dominate the historiography of empires. The dissertation capitalizes on the ambiguous colonial nature of the German role in the architecture, engineering, and urbanism of the late Ottoman empire and situates it as a variegated and occasionally dialogic model of European cultural expansionism by way of a process identified here as ambiguous transmutation.

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Subject:

Railroads Turkey Design and construction History 19th century.
Railroads Turkey Design and construction History 20th century.
Germans Foreign countries.
Allemands Pays étrangers.
Railroads Design and construction.
Turkey.

Form/genre:

Theses.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 288847
Call No.: BIB 230812
Copy: v. 1
Status: Available

Location: Library main 288973
Call No.: BIB 230812
Copy: v. 2
Status: Available

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