Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xviii, 232 pages; 24 cm.

Series statement

1. Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East

Uniform title

1. Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East.

Subject

1. Foster children > Turkey > History > 19th century
2. Armenians > Turkey > Social conditions > 19th century
3. Poor children > Turkey > History > 19th century
4. Social change > Turkey > History > 19th century
5. Orphans > Turkey > History > 19th century
6. Abandoned children > Turkey > History > 19th century
7. Poor girls > Turkey > History > 19th century
8. Turkey > Social policy
9. Orphanages > Turkey > History > 19th century
10. Turkey > Social conditions > 19th century

Contents

1. A note on transliteration -- Transliterated words and phrases -- Introduction: Ottoman children's "history from below" -- The politics of child abandonment -- Private negotiation of child fosterage -- State orphanages (islahhanes) -- The internationalization of orphans -- Conclusion: Ottoman children as historical actors.

Call number

1. JFE 15-745

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Maksudyan, Nazan, 1977- author.

Title

1. Orphans and destitute children in the late Ottoman Empire / Nazan Maksudyan.

Publisher

1. Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2014.

Edition

1. First edition.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East
2. Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

LCCN

1. 2014029935

ISBN

1. 9780815633181 cloth alkaline paper
2. 0815633181 cloth alkaline paper
3. 9780815652977 ebook

Research call number

1. JFE 15-745