Date: 2012
Type: Article
Sick Men of Asia Minor in an Ailing Empire: Famine, villagers and government in missionary accounts (1873-75)
International Review of Turkish Studies, 2012, 2, 1, 72-94
ERTEM, Özge, Sick Men of Asia Minor in an Ailing Empire: Famine, villagers and government in missionary accounts (1873-75), International Review of Turkish Studies, 2012, 2, 1, 72-94
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/24714
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Between 1873-75, a severe famine struck a wide region in central Anatolia, killing at least 150,000 people. During the disaster, the American Protestant missionaries, already settled in Anatolia since the early decades of the nineteenth century, created effective networks of charity and saved many lives distributing relief and feeding thousands of peasants and townsmen.
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/24714
ISSN: 2211-3967; 2211-3975
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