Description

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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 expectations, lived realities and national responsibilities on the youngest members of societies undergoing monumental change because of ideological, wartime and demographic shifts. Drawing on comparisons both within the Balkans, Turkey and the Arab lands and with Western Europe and beyond, the chapters investigate the many ways in which upheaval and change affected the youth. Particular attention is paid to changing conceptions of childhood, gender roles and newly dominant national imperatives.

Contributors include: Elif Akşit, Laurence Brockliss, Nazan i ek, Alex Drace-Francis, Benjamin C. Fortna, Naoum Kaytchev, Duygu K ksal, Kathryn Libal, Nazan Maksudyan, Heidi Morrison, and Philipp Wirtz.

This title, in its entirety, is available online in Open Access.

About the Author

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Benjamin C. Fortna, Ph.D. (1997), University of Chicago, is Professor and Director of the School of Middle East and North African Studies at the University of Arizona. He has published on the history of education and reading in the late Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic. His latest book, a biographical study of a late Ottoman special operations officer, will appear soon with Hurst/Oxford University Press.