Download or read book Learning to Read in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Early Turkish Republic written by B. Fortna and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the ways in which children learned and were taught to read, against the background of the transition from Ottoman Empire to Turkish Republic. This study gives us a fresh perspective on the transition from empire to republic by showing us the ways that reading was central to the construction of modernity.