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

by Benjamin C . Fortna (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $115.12

  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.