TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nazan Maksudyan
TI  - Ottoman Children and Youth during World War I
T2  - Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
SN  - 9780815636458
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Syracuse, New York
PB  - Syracuse University Press
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
KW  - Children
KW  - Turkey
KW  - Children and war
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Orphans
KW  - Orphanages
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-203) and index; Introduction : the children's version -- The Great War and state orphanages (darüleytams) -- Ottoman orphan apprentices in Germany -- Children as agents and targets of nationalist politics -- Survival of children during the Armenian genocide -- Conclusion : farewell to childhood?
N2  - Maksudyan approaches the experience of World War I in the Ottoman lands from the perspective of social history, focusing on how total mobilization altered the "lives behind the lines" through the testimony of children. She discusses how issues like lack of education, work force shortages, economic dire straits, ethnic hatred, and nationalism affected children's lives, and how these were partially shaped by the children themselves. Ultimately, Maksudyan demonstrates that children, rather than being passive victims or casualties, were engaged in every facet of war
ER  -