Nazan Maksudyan's Ottoman Children & Youth During World War I asks important questions that traverse the fields of Middle East Studies, Children's Studies, and War Studies. Using a variety of sources including autobiography, oral history,... more
Nazan Maksudyan's Ottoman Children & Youth During World War I asks important questions that traverse the fields of Middle East Studies, Children's Studies, and War Studies. Using a variety of sources including autobiography, oral history, press, and archives in Istanbul and Berlin, the book convincingly argues that Ottoman children were simultaneously targets of and actors in World War I. This book builds on Maksudyan's first book, Orphans and Destitute Children in the Late Ottoman Empire, which integrates children into the narrative of late Ottoman Empire modernization.
