{"product_id":"agency-and-representation-von-gulden-canol","title":"AGENCY AND REPRESENTATION","description":"\u003cp\u003eExpositions were  potent  sites  of  information  about  the contemporaneous  state  of technology, art, architecture and culture at an international scale. In the nineteenth century, in Western perception the world was composed of two parts: the Orient and the Occident. The world expositions of the nineteenth century, however, cannot  be evaluated based merely on the representation  of Eastern countries  by the Western World. Western historiographers of architecture criticize ¿other'' architectures from an Orientalist perspective where the uniqueness and dominance of the West were emphasized.  This book focuses on Ottoman participation in these exhibitions. The main argument is that  the Ottoman  representation  cannot  be  evaluated  under  the category  of colonial countries on the one hand and Western perceptions of Ottoman society at the time being on  the  other.  Analyzing  the  active  agency  of  the  Ottoman  presence  in  the  World Exhibitions, the present study challenges the passive role that is usually attributed by contemporary historiography to the representation of non-Western cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783838333472\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eOTTOMAN PARTICIPATION IN NINETEENTH CENTURY INTERNATIONAL FAIRS\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783838333472","offer_id":39499100389469,"sku":"9783838333472","price":49.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/5717f574-4570-4232-9b95-d292ccf38fa9.jpg?v=1773385356","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/agency-and-representation-von-gulden-canol","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}