Balsoy Gülhan. The Politics of Reproduction in Ottoman Society, 1838-1900

Routledge, 2014. — 192 p.Epidemics, migration and territorial losses led to population decline in early nineteenth-century Turkey. In response, Ottoman elites began a programme of population growth. Balsoy uses previously untapped archival sources to examine these developments, arguing that these changes caused reproduction to become a political experience.