{"product_id":"confessions-of-monuments","title":"Confessions of monuments","description":"Following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire in the early 1920s, an emerging nation state built a particular relationship with the Ottoman past. In its simultaneous disavowal and inheritance of it, this was the new Republic of Turkey, founded in 1923. Nation-states are areas of ideological contestation. However, they are equally visible and tangible. This is thanks to the making of a new world of artefacts in build or print that represent and commemorate them in many, often contradicting ways through design practices. This book offers a thorough account of this new Turkish material world through the trajectories of commemoration; from public monuments, print media, and festive illumination to temporary and permanent architecture from the onset of the 1908 Young Turk revolution to the demise of Turkey’s founding single-party regime in the late 1950s. If objects are silent actors of history, their confessions await.","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56747737743704,"sku":"9781526176233","price":97.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781526176233_4661e01b-b21a-4dec-9eea-3adeda35bcfe.jpg?v=1778914832","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/confessions-of-monuments","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}