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14 - Educational Imperialism or Enlightenment?

from Part IV - Identities on the Mediterranean Shore

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 October 2020

Malte Fuhrmann
Affiliation:
Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO)
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While most nineteenth-century Great Powers attempted to spread their language and country's prestige via sponsored schools abroad, in the Eastern Mediterranean, these schools were actually used by residents to gain a particularly valuable cultural capital and to emancipate themselves from their respective ethnic groups. Their families' bargaining power as payers of tuition and the fierce competition between the various foreign schools enabled them to overcome the imperialist intentions of these schools.

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Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean
Urban Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire
, pp. 219 - 233
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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