Description: "Reinterprets the history of Ottoman architecture under the patronage of Ali Pasha of Ioannina, a provincial governor who came to rule a vast domain that spanned most of modern-day Greece and Albania"--
Brief description: Emily Neumeier is Assistant Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at Temple University.
Review Quotes:
"Architectural Revolution on the Ottoman Frontier is a touchstone contribution--empirically and methodologically--to the study of the imperial periphery in art and architectural history. It convincingly makes its case with rigorous archival and documentation work that the Ottoman hinterland was indeed a site of generative artistic production, enriched rather than limited by its distance from the long shadow of Constantinople."
--Peter H. Christensen, author of Precious Metal: German Steel, Modernity, and Ecology