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Istanbul Households: Marriage, Family and Fertility, 1880-1940

By Cem Behar , Alan Duben

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1991
ISBN
0521383757, 9780521383752
LCC
HQ663.4.Z9 I773 1991
Google Books ID
vwfNG1EU6OEC
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (14700765 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time
Pages
296\296
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

Istanbul Households is a social history of marriage, the family and population in Istanbul during the turbulent period of transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Istanbul was the first Muslim city to experience a systematic decline in fertility and major changes in family life, and, as such, set the tone for many social and cultural changes in Turkey and the Muslim world. Istanbul was the major focal point for the forces of westernization of Turkish society, processes which not only transformed political and economic institutions in that country, but also had a profound and lasting impact on domestic life. This is the first systematic historical study of the family and population in Turkey or the Middle East, combining the methods and approaches of social anthropology, historical demography and social history.

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