Childhood in the late Ottoman Empire and after / edited by Benjamin C. Fortna.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Benjamin C. Fortna -- Introduction: The Western Concept of Childhood / Laurence Brockliss -- The Interplay between Modernization and the Reconstruction of Childhood: Romantic Interpretations of the Child in Early Republican Era Popular Magazines, 1924–1950 / Nazan Çiçek -- Child Poverty and Emerging Children’s Rights Discourse in Early Republican Turkey / Kathryn Libal -- Nation-Building and Childhood in Early Twentieth Century Egypt / Heidi Morrison -- Being a Girl in Ottoman Novels / Elif Akşit -- Children into Adults, Peasants into Patriots: The Army and Nation-Building in Serbia and Bulgaria (1878–1912) / Naoum Kaytchev -- A Triangle of Regrets: Training Ottoman Children in Germany During the First World War / Nazan Maksudyan -- Bonbons and Bayonets: Mixed Messages of Childhood in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Early Turkish Republic / Benjamin C. Fortna -- Locating Remembrance: Regimes of Time and Cultures of Autobiography in Post-Independence Romania / Alex Drace-Francis -- Presenting Ottoman Childhoods in Post-Ottoman Autobiographies / Philipp Wirtz -- Escaping to Girlhood in Late Ottoman Istanbul: Demetra Vaka’s and Selma Ekrem’s Childhood Memories / Duygu Köksal -- Index / Benjamin C. Fortna.

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This volume explores the variety of ways in which childhood was experienced, lived and remembered in the late Ottoman Empire and its successor states. The period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was a time of rapid change, and the history of childhood reflects the impact of new expectations, lived realities and national responsibilities on the youngest members of societies undergoing monumental change because of ideological, wartime and demographic shifts. Drawing on comparisons both within the Balkans, Turkey and the Arab lands and with Western Europe and beyond, the chapters investigate the many ways in which upheaval and change affected the youth. Particular attention is paid to changing conceptions of childhood, gender roles and newly dominant national imperatives. Contributors include: Elif Akşit, Laurence Brockliss, Nazan Çiçek, Alex Drace-Francis, Benjamin C. Fortna, Naoum Kaytchev, Duygu Köksal, Kathryn Libal, Nazan Maksudyan, Heidi Morrison, and Philipp Wirtz. This title, in its entirety, is available online in Open Access.