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Learning to Read in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Early Turkish Republic
Benjamin C. Fortna
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Description for Learning to Read in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Early Turkish Republic
Hardcover. 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. This study gives us a fresh perspective on the transition from empire to republic by showing us the ways that reading was central to the construction of modernity. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 1QDT; CJCR; HBTB; JN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 224 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 434.
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. This study gives us a fresh perspective on the transition from empire to republic by showing us the ways that reading was central to the construction of modernity.
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. This study gives us a fresh perspective on the transition from empire to republic by showing us the ways that reading was central to the construction of modernity.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
247
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230232969
SKU
V9780230232969
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99-15
About Benjamin C. Fortna
BENJAMIN C. FORTNA teaches Middle Eastern History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK. He received degrees from Yale, Columbia and the University of Chicago. His publications include Imperial Classroom: Islam, Education and the State in the Late Ottoman Empire and the co-edited The Modern Middle East: A Sourcebook for History.
Reviews for Learning to Read in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Early Turkish Republic
'I was much impressed by Benjamin C. Fortna's book Learning to Read in Late Ottoman and the Early Turkish Republic. The author, [...] possesses considerable expertise in the field of Ottoman education....' - Professor Johann Strauss, Department of Turkish Studies, Strasbourg University, France 'Fortna has succeeded admirably at tackling the daunting question of how people learned to ... Read more