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Betäubungsmittel in der arabisch-islamischen Kultur 1100-1800
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Opium, Bilsenkraut und Haschisch: Was berichten die vormodernen, arabisch-islamischen Quellen darüber? In diesem Buch werden sämtlich Aspekte von Gebrach und Missbrauch untersucht: Die Verwendung in der klassisch-arabischen Medizin, die Verwendung als Gifte, der juristische Diskurs um ihren Gebrauch und ihr Missbrauch als Rauschmittel. Außerdem werden die ab dem 13. Jh. entstehenden Monografien über Betäubungsmittel betrachtet und es wird der Frage nach einem vormodernen Verständnis von Abhängigkeit nachgegangen. Durch den Betrachtungszeitraum von 1100 bis 1800 werden Trends im Rauschmittelkonsum erkennbar, zahlreiche, sich verändernde juristische Positionen können nebeneinander gestellt werden und es entsteht ein facettenreiches Bild der Rauschmittelkonsumenten in ihren jeweiligen Lebensumfeldern.
Opium, Henbane and Hashish: What do the pre-modern Arabic-Islamic sources say about them? This book examines all aspects of use and abuse: Use in classical Arabic medicine, use as poisons, the juridical discourse on their use and their abuse as intoxicants. Furthermore, the monographs on narcotics that were written from the 13th century onwards are examined and the question of a premodern understanding of addiction is pursued. The period from 1100 to 1800 reveals trends in drug consumption, numerous, changing legal positions can be placed side by side and a multifaceted picture of drug users in their living environments emerges.
Opium, Henbane and Hashish: What do the pre-modern Arabic-Islamic sources say about them? This book examines all aspects of use and abuse: Use in classical Arabic medicine, use as poisons, the juridical discourse on their use and their abuse as intoxicants. Furthermore, the monographs on narcotics that were written from the 13th century onwards are examined and the question of a premodern understanding of addiction is pursued. The period from 1100 to 1800 reveals trends in drug consumption, numerous, changing legal positions can be placed side by side and a multifaceted picture of drug users in their living environments emerges.
Betäubungsmittel in der arabisch-islamischen Kultur 1100-1800
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Opium, Bilsenkraut und Haschisch: Was berichten die vormodernen, arabisch-islamischen Quellen darüber? In diesem Buch werden sämtlich Aspekte von Gebrach und Missbrauch untersucht: Die Verwendung in der klassisch-arabischen Medizin, die Verwendung als Gifte, der juristische Diskurs um ihren Gebrauch und ihr Missbrauch als Rauschmittel. Außerdem werden die ab dem 13. Jh. entstehenden Monografien über Betäubungsmittel betrachtet und es wird der Frage nach einem vormodernen Verständnis von Abhängigkeit nachgegangen. Durch den Betrachtungszeitraum von 1100 bis 1800 werden Trends im Rauschmittelkonsum erkennbar, zahlreiche, sich verändernde juristische Positionen können nebeneinander gestellt werden und es entsteht ein facettenreiches Bild der Rauschmittelkonsumenten in ihren jeweiligen Lebensumfeldern.
Opium, Henbane and Hashish: What do the pre-modern Arabic-Islamic sources say about them? This book examines all aspects of use and abuse: Use in classical Arabic medicine, use as poisons, the juridical discourse on their use and their abuse as intoxicants. Furthermore, the monographs on narcotics that were written from the 13th century onwards are examined and the question of a premodern understanding of addiction is pursued. The period from 1100 to 1800 reveals trends in drug consumption, numerous, changing legal positions can be placed side by side and a multifaceted picture of drug users in their living environments emerges.
Opium, Henbane and Hashish: What do the pre-modern Arabic-Islamic sources say about them? This book examines all aspects of use and abuse: Use in classical Arabic medicine, use as poisons, the juridical discourse on their use and their abuse as intoxicants. Furthermore, the monographs on narcotics that were written from the 13th century onwards are examined and the question of a premodern understanding of addiction is pursued. The period from 1100 to 1800 reveals trends in drug consumption, numerous, changing legal positions can be placed side by side and a multifaceted picture of drug users in their living environments emerges.
Art and the Aesthetics of the Incredible in Neronian Rome
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Golden Excess: Art and the Aesthetics of the Incredible in Neronian Rome is the first monograph to offer a full art historical synthesis of the rich archaeological and monumental evidence for Nero’s remarkable principate. An outsized and innovative artistic program emerges, informed by aesthetics of excess, the grotesque and learned luxury, that rivals the cultural achievements of Rome’s first emperor, Augustus and stands in stark contrast to the universally negative and disparaging accounts of Nero in ancient authors. Indeed, Neronian Rome witnessed an astonishing efflorescence in the arts whose lasting effects still resonate.
Art and the Aesthetics of the Incredible in Neronian Rome
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Golden Excess: Art and the Aesthetics of the Incredible in Neronian Rome is the first monograph to offer a full art historical synthesis of the rich archaeological and monumental evidence for Nero’s remarkable principate. An outsized and innovative artistic program emerges, informed by aesthetics of excess, the grotesque and learned luxury, that rivals the cultural achievements of Rome’s first emperor, Augustus and stands in stark contrast to the universally negative and disparaging accounts of Nero in ancient authors. Indeed, Neronian Rome witnessed an astonishing efflorescence in the arts whose lasting effects still resonate.
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European History and Culture E-Books Online, Volume: 2025 and
Humanities and Social Sciences E-Books Online, Volume: 2025
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Brill's European History and Culture E-Books Online, Collection 2025 is the electronic version of the book publication program of Brill in the field of European History and Culture in 2025.
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Early Modern History, Modern History, Global History, History of Central and Eastern Europe, Atlantic History, Jewish History, Church History, Reformation History, History of Ideas, History of Science, Book History, History of Warfare, (European) Art
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Early Modern History, Modern History, Global History, History of Central and Eastern Europe, Atlantic History, Jewish History, Church History, Reformation History, History of Ideas, History of Science, Book History, History of Warfare, (European) Art
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Mestizos Identities at the Margins of Portuguese Imperial Expansion
Filhos da Terra narrates the history over time of the so-called ‘Portuguese communities’ living outside the boundaries of the Portuguese Empire but identified locally and by other European empires as ‘Portuguese’. Concepts such as ‘tribe’, ‘diaspora’, and ‘society of métissage’ have been widely used to define these groups.
In Filhos da Terra, António Manuel Hespanha sets the stage to analyse a process of creolization that followed the Portuguese maritime expansion and consequent colonial buildup after 1415 and until 1800. This translated edition of his work opens up the possibility for future critical scholarly and public comparative discussions about diversity, identities, and identifications in the context of European empire building.
Contributors are: Cátia Antunes, Zoltan Biedermann, Tamar Herzog, Noelle Richardson, Sophie Rose, and Ângela Barreto Xavier.
In Filhos da Terra, António Manuel Hespanha sets the stage to analyse a process of creolization that followed the Portuguese maritime expansion and consequent colonial buildup after 1415 and until 1800. This translated edition of his work opens up the possibility for future critical scholarly and public comparative discussions about diversity, identities, and identifications in the context of European empire building.
Contributors are: Cátia Antunes, Zoltan Biedermann, Tamar Herzog, Noelle Richardson, Sophie Rose, and Ângela Barreto Xavier.
Mestizos Identities at the Margins of Portuguese Imperial Expansion
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Filhos da Terra narrates the history over time of the so-called ‘Portuguese communities’ living outside the boundaries of the Portuguese Empire but identified locally and by other European empires as ‘Portuguese’. Concepts such as ‘tribe’, ‘diaspora’, and ‘society of métissage’ have been widely used to define these groups.
In Filhos da Terra, António Manuel Hespanha sets the stage to analyse a process of creolization that followed the Portuguese maritime expansion and consequent colonial buildup after 1415 and until 1800. This translated edition of his work opens up the possibility for future critical scholarly and public comparative discussions about diversity, identities, and identifications in the context of European empire building.
Contributors are: Cátia Antunes, Zoltan Biedermann, Tamar Herzog, Noelle Richardson, Sophie Rose, and Ângela Barreto Xavier.
In Filhos da Terra, António Manuel Hespanha sets the stage to analyse a process of creolization that followed the Portuguese maritime expansion and consequent colonial buildup after 1415 and until 1800. This translated edition of his work opens up the possibility for future critical scholarly and public comparative discussions about diversity, identities, and identifications in the context of European empire building.
Contributors are: Cátia Antunes, Zoltan Biedermann, Tamar Herzog, Noelle Richardson, Sophie Rose, and Ângela Barreto Xavier.
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These last three books of Josephus’s Antiquities detail Jewish history between the establishment of direct Roman rule in Judea in 6 CE and the outbreak of the Judean rebellion against Rome in 66 – a rebellion that culminated in 70 with the destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple. Along the way, these books also constitute the main source for the context in which Christianity was born. This volume offers a translation of Josephus’s Greek text, along with a commentary that aims to clarify the history to which Josephus testifies and also its meaning for him as an exiled Jerusalemite and rebel-turned-historian.
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These last three books of Josephus’s Antiquities detail Jewish history between the establishment of direct Roman rule in Judea in 6 CE and the outbreak of the Judean rebellion against Rome in 66 – a rebellion that culminated in 70 with the destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple. Along the way, these books also constitute the main source for the context in which Christianity was born. This volume offers a translation of Josephus’s Greek text, along with a commentary that aims to clarify the history to which Josephus testifies and also its meaning for him as an exiled Jerusalemite and rebel-turned-historian.
The Vibrant Cultures of Port Cities
Hustle and Bustle explores the movements, sites, sounds, and smells unique to port cities, and to the constant activity associated with the shipping and trade, migration, and transport that characterizes the spaces of port cities during day and night. Detailed case studies with a focus on European examples, from multidisciplinary perspectives, provide new approaches to reading port cities. The authors explore perspectives from planning to understand these unique conditions of port cities and their spatial, social and cultural conditions, and to inform new policies, plans, designs that acknowledge both the specific conditions of transshipment and associated nuisances of sound and smell, and of air and water pollution.
Contributors are: Vincent Baptist, Robert Bartłomiejski, Tianchen Dai, Carola Hein, Sławomir Iwasiów, Karolina Izdebska, Maciej Kowalewski, Urszula Kozłowska, Paul van de Laar, Beatrice Moretti, Nick Osbaldiston, Manuel Pacheco Coelho, Ewa Rewers, Dirk Schubert, Christoph Strupp, and Enrico Tommarchi.
Contributors are: Vincent Baptist, Robert Bartłomiejski, Tianchen Dai, Carola Hein, Sławomir Iwasiów, Karolina Izdebska, Maciej Kowalewski, Urszula Kozłowska, Paul van de Laar, Beatrice Moretti, Nick Osbaldiston, Manuel Pacheco Coelho, Ewa Rewers, Dirk Schubert, Christoph Strupp, and Enrico Tommarchi.
The Vibrant Cultures of Port Cities
Hustle and Bustle explores the movements, sites, sounds, and smells unique to port cities, and to the constant activity associated with the shipping and trade, migration, and transport that characterizes the spaces of port cities during day and night. Detailed case studies with a focus on European examples, from multidisciplinary perspectives, provide new approaches to reading port cities. The authors explore perspectives from planning to understand these unique conditions of port cities and their spatial, social and cultural conditions, and to inform new policies, plans, designs that acknowledge both the specific conditions of transshipment and associated nuisances of sound and smell, and of air and water pollution.
Contributors are: Vincent Baptist, Robert Bartłomiejski, Tianchen Dai, Carola Hein, Sławomir Iwasiów, Karolina Izdebska, Maciej Kowalewski, Urszula Kozłowska, Paul van de Laar, Beatrice Moretti, Nick Osbaldiston, Manuel Pacheco Coelho, Ewa Rewers, Dirk Schubert, Christoph Strupp, and Enrico Tommarchi.
Contributors are: Vincent Baptist, Robert Bartłomiejski, Tianchen Dai, Carola Hein, Sławomir Iwasiów, Karolina Izdebska, Maciej Kowalewski, Urszula Kozłowska, Paul van de Laar, Beatrice Moretti, Nick Osbaldiston, Manuel Pacheco Coelho, Ewa Rewers, Dirk Schubert, Christoph Strupp, and Enrico Tommarchi.
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The blank spots on a map and the legends that speak of terrae incognitae are among the most seductive sirens of the cartographic imagination. They hint at the existence of unknown lands, yet tell us nothing about what they are or what they might be like.
Do such lands even exist? How many types of terrae incognitae are there? What does it mean, and what has it meant, to mark a land as unknown? Why do so many maps of the last five centuries insist on reserving a place for unknown geographies?
This book navigates the cartographic unknown, exploring its contribution to the history of knowledge and geographical culture.
Do such lands even exist? How many types of terrae incognitae are there? What does it mean, and what has it meant, to mark a land as unknown? Why do so many maps of the last five centuries insist on reserving a place for unknown geographies?
This book navigates the cartographic unknown, exploring its contribution to the history of knowledge and geographical culture.
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The blank spots on a map and the legends that speak of terrae incognitae are among the most seductive sirens of the cartographic imagination. They hint at the existence of unknown lands, yet tell us nothing about what they are or what they might be like.
Do such lands even exist? How many types of terrae incognitae are there? What does it mean, and what has it meant, to mark a land as unknown? Why do so many maps of the last five centuries insist on reserving a place for unknown geographies?
This book navigates the cartographic unknown, exploring its contribution to the history of knowledge and geographical culture.
Do such lands even exist? How many types of terrae incognitae are there? What does it mean, and what has it meant, to mark a land as unknown? Why do so many maps of the last five centuries insist on reserving a place for unknown geographies?
This book navigates the cartographic unknown, exploring its contribution to the history of knowledge and geographical culture.
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European History and Culture E-Books Online, Volume: 2025 and
Humanities and Social Sciences E-Books Online, Volume: 2025
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Brill's European History and Culture E-Books Online, Collection 2025 is the electronic version of the book publication program of Brill in the field of European History and Culture in 2025.
Coverage:
Medieval History, Medieval Archeology, History of Central and Eastern Europe, History of Northern Europe, Mediterranean History, Jewish History, Medieval Philosophy, History of Ideas, History of Science
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Medieval History, Medieval Archeology, History of Central and Eastern Europe, History of Northern Europe, Mediterranean History, Jewish History, Medieval Philosophy, History of Ideas, History of Science
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[Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn: A Translation of David Nicolle's Work on Saladin with Commentary]
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ولكون ديفيد نيكول، مُؤرِّخًا عسكريًّا إنكليزيًّا، له كِتاباتٌ ثِقَالُ الوَطْأَة في الغرب، تتَّسمُ بالموضوعيَّة إلى حدٍّ كبيرٍ، ويأتي في سَنَام أعْماله هذا الكِتاب الذي نحنُ في رِحابه نتجوَّلُ وعمَّا قريبٍ سنقطفُ من ثماره اليُنْع؛ إذ يتناوَلُ الجانِبَ القياديَّ والإستراتيجيَّ والصِّراعيَّ من مسيرة صلاح الدِّين على نحوٍ أَخَصَّ، ومن ثَمَّ وقع عليه اخْتِياري. فالمُؤلِّف يتَّخذُ موقفَ بينَ بينَ من صلاح الدِّين، مُتجنِّبًا التَّفريط والإفْراط: فلا هو بالمُؤيِّد القُحِّ، ولا هو بالمُتحامِل الإدِّ، وإنْ كان إلى الحِياد أقرب
Saladin lived at a time when the Islamic world was going through profound changes. Since the later 11th century, the Turkish ruling elites had dominated most of the Islamic Middle East. In military terms Arabs and Persians were being pushed aside, though they continued to dominate the religious, cultural and commercial elites. Meanwhile Kurds had only limited and localized importance, which makes the rise of a man of Kurdish origins like Saladin unusual.
[Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn: A Translation of David Nicolle's Work on Saladin with Commentary]
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ولكون ديفيد نيكول، مُؤرِّخًا عسكريًّا إنكليزيًّا، له كِتاباتٌ ثِقَالُ الوَطْأَة في الغرب، تتَّسمُ بالموضوعيَّة إلى حدٍّ كبيرٍ، ويأتي في سَنَام أعْماله هذا الكِتاب الذي نحنُ في رِحابه نتجوَّلُ وعمَّا قريبٍ سنقطفُ من ثماره اليُنْع؛ إذ يتناوَلُ الجانِبَ القياديَّ والإستراتيجيَّ والصِّراعيَّ من مسيرة صلاح الدِّين على نحوٍ أَخَصَّ، ومن ثَمَّ وقع عليه اخْتِياري. فالمُؤلِّف يتَّخذُ موقفَ بينَ بينَ من صلاح الدِّين، مُتجنِّبًا التَّفريط والإفْراط: فلا هو بالمُؤيِّد القُحِّ، ولا هو بالمُتحامِل الإدِّ، وإنْ كان إلى الحِياد أقرب
Saladin lived at a time when the Islamic world was going through profound changes. Since the later 11th century, the Turkish ruling elites had dominated most of the Islamic Middle East. In military terms Arabs and Persians were being pushed aside, though they continued to dominate the religious, cultural and commercial elites. Meanwhile Kurds had only limited and localized importance, which makes the rise of a man of Kurdish origins like Saladin unusual.
An Essay on Forgers, Bureaucrats, and Philologists (18th-20th Centuries)
Author:
Preface: Forgery in Action
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Calendar Systems
Transliteration
About the cover
Introduction—Fakes: In It From the Outset
1 Carlo Ginzburg’s Photo Finish
2 Robert-Henri Bautier’s Passion
3 What Two Out-And-Out Usurpers Look Like
4 State Art and Statecraft
Introduction to Part1
1 Symbolic Deaths, or Proscription
1 El-ḥâc Ṣâliḥ from Bûrdur
2 Ḥaḳḳı Efendi—Deactivating a Pasha
3 An Inventory as an Example
2 Sharp Sight, or the Reserves of Perspicacity
1 From Afar, or the Fleeting Glimpse of Meḥmed Fû’âd Efendi
2 Seen from Closer Up—the Attentive Gaze
3 Collocation Effects
4 In Which Excellence Frequents Mediocrity
5 Matter for Discernment
6 Distinctive Characteristics
3 Conditioning What Cannot Be Discerned
1 Clipped and Gilded
2 Meḥmed the Kurd, or the Mutism of Scratching
3 Sándor Radnóti, or the Power of Wear(ing)
4 Süleymân Efendi, or Interpolation in the Hollows
5 The Report from Bîġâ, or How to Falsify Without Altering
6 Falsification despite the Indiscernible
7 Vanishing Fakes
8 The Garden of San Stefano
4 Extracts from the Realm of Particles
A Short Theory of Mixtures and Amalgamations
1 Medicines, Fats, and Assimilated Products
2 Trieste Rums, Leucadian Wines
3 Water, Lemonade, and Carbonic Acid
4 Rearranged and Recomposed
5 Léon the Austrian and Co.
6 Aniline and Its Admixtures
7 The Color of Science: The Artifice of Chromatopsia
8 Tea in the Laboratory
9 All Sorts of Avania
10 The Apothecary Dressed Up as a Chemist
Coda: The Power of Suspicion
1 Gone AWOL
Introduction to Part2
1 One Beginning, Two Trials
5 Forgers and Co.
Incrimination by the Gang
1 Lads from the Docks (1)
2 The Steamer from Trebizond
3 Traces of Companionship
4 Lads from the Docks (2)
5 Vâsîlâkî, Sûrepa, Mıġırdîc, and the Gang
6 Confecting Is Conceiving
Conviction by Instruments
1 The Idle-Handed
2 Forever Tinkering, Forever Trying
7 The Work of Interrogation
1 The Question
2 Pressure
3 To Summarize
Afterword: Making the Most of Fakes
Appendix 1: Facsimiles and Transliterations
Appendix 2: Analytical Table
Bibliography
Index of Operations
Index of Terms & Phrases
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Calendar Systems
Transliteration
About the cover
Introduction—Fakes: In It From the Outset
1 Carlo Ginzburg’s Photo Finish
2 Robert-Henri Bautier’s Passion
3 What Two Out-And-Out Usurpers Look Like
4 State Art and Statecraft
Part1 Apprehensions and Reprehensions: Looking for Imprints
Introduction to Part1
1 Symbolic Deaths, or Proscription
1 El-ḥâc Ṣâliḥ from Bûrdur
2 Ḥaḳḳı Efendi—Deactivating a Pasha
3 An Inventory as an Example
2 Sharp Sight, or the Reserves of Perspicacity
1 From Afar, or the Fleeting Glimpse of Meḥmed Fû’âd Efendi
2 Seen from Closer Up—the Attentive Gaze
3 Collocation Effects
4 In Which Excellence Frequents Mediocrity
5 Matter for Discernment
6 Distinctive Characteristics
3 Conditioning What Cannot Be Discerned
1 Clipped and Gilded
2 Meḥmed the Kurd, or the Mutism of Scratching
3 Sándor Radnóti, or the Power of Wear(ing)
4 Süleymân Efendi, or Interpolation in the Hollows
5 The Report from Bîġâ, or How to Falsify Without Altering
6 Falsification despite the Indiscernible
7 Vanishing Fakes
8 The Garden of San Stefano
4 Extracts from the Realm of Particles
A Short Theory of Mixtures and Amalgamations
1 Medicines, Fats, and Assimilated Products
2 Trieste Rums, Leucadian Wines
3 Water, Lemonade, and Carbonic Acid
4 Rearranged and Recomposed
5 Léon the Austrian and Co.
6 Aniline and Its Admixtures
7 The Color of Science: The Artifice of Chromatopsia
8 Tea in the Laboratory
9 All Sorts of Avania
10 The Apothecary Dressed Up as a Chemist
Coda: The Power of Suspicion
1 Gone AWOL
Part2 Characterization and Classification: The Morphology of Reports and Relationships
Introduction to Part2
1 One Beginning, Two Trials
5 Forgers and Co.
Incrimination by the Gang
1 Lads from the Docks (1)
2 The Steamer from Trebizond
3 Traces of Companionship
4 Lads from the Docks (2)
5 Vâsîlâkî, Sûrepa, Mıġırdîc, and the Gang
6 Confecting Is Conceiving
Conviction by Instruments
1 The Idle-Handed
2 Forever Tinkering, Forever Trying
7 The Work of Interrogation
1 The Question
2 Pressure
3 To Summarize
Afterword: Making the Most of Fakes
Appendix 1: Facsimiles and Transliterations
Appendix 2: Analytical Table
Bibliography
Index of Operations
Index of Terms & Phrases
An Essay on Forgers, Bureaucrats, and Philologists (18th-20th Centuries)
Author:
Preface: Forgery in Action
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Calendar Systems
Transliteration
About the cover
Introduction—Fakes: In It From the Outset
1 Carlo Ginzburg’s Photo Finish
2 Robert-Henri Bautier’s Passion
3 What Two Out-And-Out Usurpers Look Like
4 State Art and Statecraft
Introduction to Part1
1 Symbolic Deaths, or Proscription
1 El-ḥâc Ṣâliḥ from Bûrdur
2 Ḥaḳḳı Efendi—Deactivating a Pasha
3 An Inventory as an Example
2 Sharp Sight, or the Reserves of Perspicacity
1 From Afar, or the Fleeting Glimpse of Meḥmed Fû’âd Efendi
2 Seen from Closer Up—the Attentive Gaze
3 Collocation Effects
4 In Which Excellence Frequents Mediocrity
5 Matter for Discernment
6 Distinctive Characteristics
3 Conditioning What Cannot Be Discerned
1 Clipped and Gilded
2 Meḥmed the Kurd, or the Mutism of Scratching
3 Sándor Radnóti, or the Power of Wear(ing)
4 Süleymân Efendi, or Interpolation in the Hollows
5 The Report from Bîġâ, or How to Falsify Without Altering
6 Falsification despite the Indiscernible
7 Vanishing Fakes
8 The Garden of San Stefano
4 Extracts from the Realm of Particles
A Short Theory of Mixtures and Amalgamations
1 Medicines, Fats, and Assimilated Products
2 Trieste Rums, Leucadian Wines
3 Water, Lemonade, and Carbonic Acid
4 Rearranged and Recomposed
5 Léon the Austrian and Co.
6 Aniline and Its Admixtures
7 The Color of Science: The Artifice of Chromatopsia
8 Tea in the Laboratory
9 All Sorts of Avania
10 The Apothecary Dressed Up as a Chemist
Coda: The Power of Suspicion
1 Gone AWOL
Introduction to Part2
1 One Beginning, Two Trials
5 Forgers and Co.
Incrimination by the Gang
1 Lads from the Docks (1)
2 The Steamer from Trebizond
3 Traces of Companionship
4 Lads from the Docks (2)
5 Vâsîlâkî, Sûrepa, Mıġırdîc, and the Gang
6 Confecting Is Conceiving
Conviction by Instruments
1 The Idle-Handed
2 Forever Tinkering, Forever Trying
7 The Work of Interrogation
1 The Question
2 Pressure
3 To Summarize
Afterword: Making the Most of Fakes
Appendix 1: Facsimiles and Transliterations
Appendix 2: Analytical Table
Bibliography
Index of Operations
Index of Terms & Phrases
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Calendar Systems
Transliteration
About the cover
Introduction—Fakes: In It From the Outset
1 Carlo Ginzburg’s Photo Finish
2 Robert-Henri Bautier’s Passion
3 What Two Out-And-Out Usurpers Look Like
4 State Art and Statecraft
Part1 Apprehensions and Reprehensions: Looking for Imprints
Introduction to Part1
1 Symbolic Deaths, or Proscription
1 El-ḥâc Ṣâliḥ from Bûrdur
2 Ḥaḳḳı Efendi—Deactivating a Pasha
3 An Inventory as an Example
2 Sharp Sight, or the Reserves of Perspicacity
1 From Afar, or the Fleeting Glimpse of Meḥmed Fû’âd Efendi
2 Seen from Closer Up—the Attentive Gaze
3 Collocation Effects
4 In Which Excellence Frequents Mediocrity
5 Matter for Discernment
6 Distinctive Characteristics
3 Conditioning What Cannot Be Discerned
1 Clipped and Gilded
2 Meḥmed the Kurd, or the Mutism of Scratching
3 Sándor Radnóti, or the Power of Wear(ing)
4 Süleymân Efendi, or Interpolation in the Hollows
5 The Report from Bîġâ, or How to Falsify Without Altering
6 Falsification despite the Indiscernible
7 Vanishing Fakes
8 The Garden of San Stefano
4 Extracts from the Realm of Particles
A Short Theory of Mixtures and Amalgamations
1 Medicines, Fats, and Assimilated Products
2 Trieste Rums, Leucadian Wines
3 Water, Lemonade, and Carbonic Acid
4 Rearranged and Recomposed
5 Léon the Austrian and Co.
6 Aniline and Its Admixtures
7 The Color of Science: The Artifice of Chromatopsia
8 Tea in the Laboratory
9 All Sorts of Avania
10 The Apothecary Dressed Up as a Chemist
Coda: The Power of Suspicion
1 Gone AWOL
Part2 Characterization and Classification: The Morphology of Reports and Relationships
Introduction to Part2
1 One Beginning, Two Trials
5 Forgers and Co.
Incrimination by the Gang
1 Lads from the Docks (1)
2 The Steamer from Trebizond
3 Traces of Companionship
4 Lads from the Docks (2)
5 Vâsîlâkî, Sûrepa, Mıġırdîc, and the Gang
6 Confecting Is Conceiving
Conviction by Instruments
1 The Idle-Handed
2 Forever Tinkering, Forever Trying
7 The Work of Interrogation
1 The Question
2 Pressure
3 To Summarize
Afterword: Making the Most of Fakes
Appendix 1: Facsimiles and Transliterations
Appendix 2: Analytical Table
Bibliography
Index of Operations
Index of Terms & Phrases