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Author Maksudyan, Nazan, 1977-

Title Orphans and destitute children in the late Ottoman Empire / Nazan Maksudyan
Edition First edition
Published Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource
Series Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East.
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject 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
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
Abandoned children
Armenians -- Social conditions
Foster children
Orphanages
Orphans
Poor children
Poor girls
Social change
Social conditions
Social policy
SUBJECT Turkey -- Social policy
Turkey -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Subject Turkey
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780815652977
0815652976