Benjamin C. Fortna, Ph.D. (1997), University of Chicago, is Professor and Director of the School of Middle East and North African Studies at the University of Arizona. He has published on the history of education and reading in the late Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic. His latest book, a biographical study of a late Ottoman special operations officer, will appear soon with Hurst/Oxford University Press.

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceChildhood In The Late Ottoman Empire and AfterBenjamin C. FortnaIntroductionThe Western Concept of ChildhoodLaurence BrocklissICONCEPTIONS OF CHILDHOODChapter OneThe Interplay Between Modernization and the Reconstruction of Childhood: Romantic Interpretations of the Child in Early Republican Era Popular Magazines, 1924–1950Nazan ÇiçekChapter TwoChild Poverty and Emerging Children’s Rights Discourse in Early Republican TurkeyKathryn LibalChapter ThreeNation-Building and Childhood in Early Twentieth-Century EgyptHeidi MorrisonIIWAR, GENDER AND NATIONChapter FourBecoming a Girl in Ottoman NovelsElif AkşitChapter FiveConscripts into Soldiers, Peasants into Patriots: The Army and Nation-Building in Serbia and Bulgaria, 1878–1912Naoum KaytchevChapter SixA Triangle of Regrets: Training Ottoman Children in Germany during the First World WarNazan MaksudyanChapter SevenBonbons and Bayonets: Mixed Messages of Childhood in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish RepublicBenjamin FortnaIIIREMEMBERING CHILDHOODChapter EightLocating Remembrance: Regimes of Time and Cultures of Autobiography in Post-Independence RomaniaAlex Drace-FrancisChapter NinePresenting Ottoman childhoods in post-Ottoman AutobiographiesPhilipp WirtzChapter TenEscaping to Girlhood in Late Ottoman Istanbul: Demetra Vaka’s and Selma Ekrem’s Childhood MemoriesDuygu Köksal