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

• Author(s): B. Fortna,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 247
• ISBN_10: 0230300413
  ISBN_13: 9780230300415
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Europe / General , History / Modern / General , History / Social History , Social Science / General , History / Middle East / General , History / General , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , History / Asia / General ,

Description:... 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.