Learned Patriots - Debating Science, State, and Society in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire - Hardback - 2015

The nineteenth century was, for many societies, a period of coming to grips with the growing, and seemingly unstoppable, domination of the world by the Great Powers of Europe. This book examines what it meant for nineteenthcentury Ottoman elites themselves to have a debate about science.
Year of publication: 2015
Pagination: 304 pages
Format: Hardback