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Learned patriots : debating science, state, and society in the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire
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- Creator
- M. Alper Yalcinkaya
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2015
- ©2015
- Physical Details
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- 314 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780226184203, 022618420X, 9780226184340, 022618434X
- OCLC
- ocn900606335, ocn879538900
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-302) and index.
- A new type of knowledge for a new social group -- Speakers, institutions, discourses of science in a new regime -- Consolidation of the discourse: science, state, and virtue in the 1860s -- Expansion and challenge: young Ottomans, new alternatives -- Debating science in the late Tanzimat era: themes and positions -- Inventing the "confused youth": science, community, and morality in the 1880s -- Science and morality at the end of the nineteenth century -- Conclusion
Subjects
- Science -- Social aspects -- Turkey -- History -- 19th century.
- Science and state -- Turkey -- History -- 19th century.
- Islam and science -- Turkey -- History -- 19th century.
- Science -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Turkey -- History -- 19th century.
- Science -- Turkey -- Public opinion -- History -- 19th century.