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Learning to Read in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Early Turkish Republic
Language: en
Pages: 261
Authors: B. Fortna
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-10 - Publisher: Springer

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An exploration of the ways in which children learned and were taught to read, against the background of the transition from Ottoman Empire to Turkish Republic.
Reading Clocks, Alla Turca
Language: en
Pages: 286
Authors: Avner Wishnitzer
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-07-07 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Up until the end of the eighteenth century, the way Ottomans used their clocks conformed to the inner logic of their own temporal culture. However, this began t
A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: M. Şükrü Hanioğlu
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-03-28 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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At the turn of the 19th century, the Ottoman Empire straddled three continents and encompassed extraordinary ethnic and cultural diversity among the millions of
Orphans and Destitute Children in the Late Ottoman Empire
Language: en
Pages: 254
Authors: Nazan Maksudyan
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-12-06 - Publisher: Syracuse University Press

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History books often weave tales of rising and falling empires, royal dynasties, and wars among powerful nations. Here, Maksudyan succeeds in making those who ar
Depicting the Late Ottoman Empire in Turkish Autobiographies
Language: en
Pages: 186
Authors: Philipp Wirtz
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-16 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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The period between the 1880s and the 1920s was a time of momentous changes in the Ottoman Empire. It was also an age of literary experiments, of which autobiogr