Childhood in the late Ottoman Empire and after / edited by Benjamin C. Fortna. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016
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Childhood in the Late Ottoman Empire and After
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Contents
Preface: Childhood in the Late Ottoman Empire and After
List of Illustrations
Introduction: The Western Concept of Childhood
PART 1: Conceptions of Childhood
2: Child Poverty and Emerging Children’s Rights Discourse in Early Republican Turkey
3: Nation-Building and Childhood in Early Twentieth Century Egypt
PART 2: War, Gender and Nation
5: Children into Adults, Peasants into Patriots: The Army and Nation-Building in Serbia and Bulgaria (1878–1912)
6: A Triangle of Regrets: Training Ottoman Children in Germany During the First World War
7: Bonbons and Bayonets: Mixed Messages of Childhood in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Early Turkish Republic
PART 3: Remembering Childhood
9: Presenting Ottoman Childhoods in Post-Ottoman Autobiographies
10: Escaping to Girlhood in Late Ottoman Istanbul: Demetra Vaka’s and Selma Ekrem’s Childhood Memories
Index