Orphans and destitute children in the late Ottoman Empire [electronic resource] / Nazan Maksudyan.
Material type: TextSeries: Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2014. 2015)Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (pages cm.)ISBN:- 9780815652977
- 0815652976
- Social change -- Turkey -- History -- 19th century
- Orphanages -- Turkey -- History -- 19th century
- Armenians -- Turkey -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Poor girls -- Turkey -- History -- 19th century
- Foster children -- Turkey -- History -- 19th century
- Abandoned children -- Turkey -- History -- 19th century
- Poor children -- Turkey -- History -- 19th century
- Orphans -- Turkey -- History -- 19th century
- Turkey -- Social policy
- Turkey -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- 362.730956/09034 23
- HV1276.7 .M35 2014
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A note on transliteration -- List of 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.
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