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

Fortna, Benjamin

Abstract

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.

Citation

Fortna, B. (2010). Learning to Read in the late Ottoman Empire and the Early Turkish Republic. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230300415

• Book Type: Authored Book
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2010
• Deposit Date: Jan 13, 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• ISBN: 9780230232969
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230300415