Title:	Istanbul households
Authors:	ALAN DUBEN and CEM BEHAR
Keywords:	Family - Turkey - History - 19th century
Issue Date:	1991
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Description:	This study spans the years approximately t88o to 1940, from Istanbul during the aftermath of the Ottoman-Russian War of 1877-8 to Istanbul in the decade prior to the Second World War. More significantly, perhaps, it moves from the last period of Ottoman history to the first of the Republic, in a city that bore the brunt of the transformation more than any other place in the region. It was a period of extraordinary change and turmoil - political, social and cultural. In some ways it seems as if the two ends of the period are separated by centuries, not merely sixty years. A periodization which spans such a major political divide is unusual - at least in Turkish history. But for our purposes it makes a great deal of sense, since we are following certain trends and events that began, or at least evolved, during the last years of the Empire and came to fruition during the early ones of the Republic. In demographic, social and cultural terms there were great continuities between 188o and 1940. Selecting the cut-off point for the study was easy, since we began with the observation that in Istanbul by the 1930s a rather modern demographic and social pattern had set in. Furthermore, in the post-Second World War years Istanbul began a new social and demographic era, the parameters of which were set by the massive immigration to the city from rural Anatolia. Though we have followed certain trends through to the end of the decade, our analyses largely come to a natural end by the early 1930s.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/56246
ISBN:	o 521 38375 7
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

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