Full Description
Ottoman attitudes towards children on the part of adults, religious institutions and the state from the 15th to the early 20th century are explored in this volume. Specialists in the social history of the Ottoman Empire as a whole, in regions ranging from Anatolia, through the Arab provinces to the Balkans, respond to recent theoretical calls to recognise children as active agents in history.
Contents
ForewordSuraiya Faroqhi
IntroductionGülay Yılmaz and Fruma Zachs
1. Ottoman Childhoods in Comparative PerspectiveColin Heywood
Part I: Concepts of Childhood
2. Childhood in the Peasant Militia Registers and the Age Boundaries of AdolescenceCahit Telci
3. An Ottoman Boyhood: Child Life in the Late Eighteenth Century through the Lens of Panayis Skouzes' AutobiographyEleni Gara
Part II: Family Interrelationships
4. Preliminary Observations on the Demographic Roots of Modern Childhood in the Ottoman Empire: Wealth, Children and Status in Ruse, Vidin and Sofia, 1670-1855İrfan Kokdaş
5. The Emotional Bond between Early Modern Ottoman Children and Parents: A Case Study of Sünbülzade's 'Ideal' Child (1700-1800)Leyla Kayhan Elbirlik
6. A World of Conflicts: Youth and Violence towards Parents in the Family in Rural Wallachia, 1716-1859Nicoleta Roman
Part III: Children Outside Family Circles
7. Born and Bred in Seventeenth-Century Crimea: Child Slavery, Social Reality and Cultural IdentityFırat Yaşa
8. Rural Girls as Domestic Servants in Late Ottoman IstanbulYahya Araz
9. Muslim Orphans and the Shari'ah in Nineteenth Century Palestine: Cases from NablusMahmud Yazbak
Part IV: Children's Bodies
10. Body Politics and Devşirmes in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire: The Conscripted Children of HerzegovinaGülay Yılmaz
11. Pastimes for Child Breadwinners: The Sanitisation and Recreation Facilities of the Hereke Factory CampusDidem Yavuz Velipaşaoğlu
12. Beating is Heaven-Sent: Corporal Punishment of Children in the late Ottoman and Early Republican EraNazan Çiçek
Part V: Children and Education
13. Childhood and Education in Ottoman Bosnia during the Early Modern Period (mid-Fifteenth to Late Eighteenth Century)Elma Korić
14. Children's Education in Ottoman Jewish Society (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)Ruth Lamdan
15. Women as Educators towards the End of the Nahda Period: Labiba Hashim and Children's UpbringingFruma Zachs
GlossaryList of ContributorsIndex



