Childhood in the late Ottoman Empire and after / edited by Benjamin C. Fortna.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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This title, in its entirety, is available online in Open Access. This volume explores the ways childhood was experienced, lived and remembered in the late Ottoman Empire and its successor states in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when rapid change placed unprecedented demands on the young.

Pt. 1 Conceptions of Childhood -- 1.The Interplay between Modernization and the Reconstruction of Childhood: Romantic Interpretations of the Child in Early Republican Era Popular Magazines, 1924 -- 1950 / Nazan Cicek -- 2.Child Poverty and Emerging Children's Rights Discourse in Early Republican Turkey / Kathryn Libal -- 3.Nation-Building and Childhood in Early Twentieth Century Egypt / Heidi Morrison -- pt. 2 War, Gender and Nation -- 4.Being a Girl in Ottoman Novels / Elif Aksit -- 5.Children into Adults, Peasants into Patriots: The Army and Nation-Building in Serbia and Bulgaria (1878 -- 1912) / Naoum Kaytchev -- 6.A Triangle of Regrets: Training Ottoman Children in Germany During the First World War / Nazan Maksudyan -- 7.Bonbons and Bayonets: Mixed Messages of Childhood in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Early Turkish Republic / Benjamin C. Fortna -- pt. 3 Remembering Childhood -- 8.Locating Remembrance: Regimes of Time and Cultures of Autobiography in Post-Independence Romania / Alex Drace-Francis -- 9.Presenting Ottoman Childhoods in Post-Ottoman Autobiographies / Philipp Wirtz -- 10.Escaping to Girlhood in Late Ottoman Istanbul: Demetra Vaka's and Selma Ekrem's Childhood Memories / Duygu Koksal.

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