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

Fortna, B.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2010-11-24

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230232969

DOI: 10.1057/9780230300415

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 247