Childhood in the Late Ottoman Empire and After / / edited by Benjamin C. Fortna.

This volume explores the variety of ways in which childhood was experienced, lived and remembered in the late Ottoman Empire and its successor states. The period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was a time of rapid change, and the history of childhood reflects the impact of new e...

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Superior document:The Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage Series ; Volume 59
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:First edition.
Language:English
Series:Ottoman Empire and its heritage.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvii, 285 pages) :; illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Benjamin C. Fortna
  • Introduction: The Western Concept of Childhood / Laurence Brockliss
  • The Interplay between Modernization and the Reconstruction of Childhood: Romantic Interpretations of the Child in Early Republican Era Popular Magazines, 1924–1950 / Nazan Çiçek
  • Child Poverty and Emerging Children’s Rights Discourse in Early Republican Turkey / Kathryn Libal
  • Nation-Building and Childhood in Early Twentieth Century Egypt / Heidi Morrison
  • Being a Girl in Ottoman Novels / Elif Akşit
  • Children into Adults, Peasants into Patriots: The Army and Nation-Building in Serbia and Bulgaria (1878–1912) / Naoum Kaytchev
  • A Triangle of Regrets: Training Ottoman Children in Germany During the First World War / Nazan Maksudyan
  • Bonbons and Bayonets: Mixed Messages of Childhood in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Early Turkish Republic / Benjamin C. Fortna
  • Locating Remembrance: Regimes of Time and Cultures of Autobiography in Post-Independence Romania / Alex Drace-Francis
  • Presenting Ottoman Childhoods in Post-Ottoman Autobiographies / Philipp Wirtz
  • Escaping to Girlhood in Late Ottoman Istanbul: Demetra Vaka’s and Selma Ekrem’s Childhood Memories / Duygu Köksal
  • Index / Benjamin C. Fortna.