Learning to read in the late Ottoman Empire and the early Turkish republic

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Learning to read in the late Ottoman Empire and the early Turkish republic

Benjamin C. Fortna

Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 , Amazon [manufacture]

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Bibliography: p. 234-243

Includes index

Printed in Japan

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2012

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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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List of Figures Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Note on Transliteration, Dates and Surnames Introduction: Reading Empire, Reading Republic Reading Represented Context and Content Mechanics: Text and Image Commodification and the Market Lives of Reading and Writing Conclusion: Reading and Modernity Notes Bibliography Index

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