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Nazan Maksudyan. Orphans and Destitute Children in the Late Ottoman Empire. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2014, xviii + 232 pages.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 December 2015

Özge Ertem*
Affiliation:
Harvard University

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© New Perspectives on Turkey and Cambridge University Press 2015 

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References

1 Philippe Ariès, Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life, trans. Robert Baldick (New York: Vintage, 1962).

2 Nurdan Gürbilek, “Orpheus Çıkmazı,” in Sessizin Payı (İstanbul: Metis, 2015), 111.

3 Ibid, 145.

4 Yaşar Kemal, Allahın Askerleri (İstanbul: YKY, 2011), 66. The book’s latest edition was published under the title Çocuklar İnsandır (İstanbul: YKY, 2014). I would like to thank my friend Seyfettin Tokmak for reminding me of the everlasting impacts of these interviews.

5 Ibid.

6 Gürbilek, “Orpheus Çıkmazı,” 145.

7 “New Texts Out Now: Nazan Maksudyan, Orphans and Destitute Children in the Late Ottoman Empire,” Jadaliyya, October 29, 2014. http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/19761/new-texts-out-now_nazan-maksudyan-orphans-and-dest.