Nazan Maksudyan

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Nazan Maksudyan (born 1977) [1] is a historian and academic. [2]

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  2. "Nazan Maksudyan, Ottoman Children and Youth during World War I (New Texts Out Now)". Jadaliyya - جدلية. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
  3. Morrison, Heidi (2015). "Orphans and Destitute Children in the Late Ottoman Empire by Nazan Maksudyan (review)". The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. 8 (2): 327–329. doi:10.1353/hcy.2015.0023. ISSN   1941-3599. S2CID   142446685.
  4. Ertem, Özge (2015). "Nazan Maksudyan. Orphans and Destitute Children in the Late Ottoman Empire. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2014, xviii + 232 pages". New Perspectives on Turkey. 53: 228–231. doi:10.1017/npt.2015.28. S2CID   147999338.
  5. Gundogdu, Cihangir (2017). "Orphans and Destitute Children in the Late Ottoman Empire . By Nazan Maksudyan. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2014. Pp. xviii + 232. $39.95 (hardcover)". Journal of Near Eastern Studies. 76 (1): 209–211. doi:10.1086/690656.
  6. Huner-Cora, N. Ipek (2016). "Women and the City, Women in the City: A Gendered Perspective on Ottoman History ed. by Nazan Maksudyan (review)". Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association. 3 (1): 203–206. doi:10.2979/jottturstuass.3.1.16. ISSN   2376-0702.
  7. "Nazan Maksudyan, editor. Women and the City, Women in the City: A Gendered Perspective on Ottoman Urban History ". The American Historical Review. 121 (2): 701.2–701. 2016. doi:10.1093/ahr/121.2.701a.
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