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Learning to Read in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Early Turkish Republic /

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 con...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fortna, Benjamin C. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Subjects:
History.
Cultural History.
European History.
History of the Middle East.
Middle Eastern Culture.
Modern History.
Social History.
Civilization > History.
Ethnology > Middle East.
History, Modern.
Social history.
Europe > History.
Middle East > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (XIV, 247 pages)
ISBN:9780230300415
DOI:10.1057/9780230300415