Gülhan Balsoy

Epidemics, migration and territorial losses led to population decline in early nineteenth-century Turkey. In response, Ottoman elites began a programme of population growth. The Politics of Reproduction in Ottoman Society, 1838–1900 by Gülhan Balsoy delves into this historical context. Balsoy uses previously untapped archival sources to examine these developments, arguing that these changes caused reproduction to become a political experience....