| Istanbul Households: Marriage, Family and Fertility, 1880 1940 Revised Edition Contributor(s): Duben, Alan (Author), Behar, Cem (Author), Smith, Richard (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521523036 ISBN-13: 9780521523035 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $56.04 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2002 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Renaissance |
| Dewey: 306.809 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 6.02" W x 9.1" (1.02 lbs) 300 pages |