{"product_id":"spiritus-roberti-orlin-sabev-9786057462183","title":"Spiritus Roberti: Shaping New Minds and Robert College in Late Ottoman Society (1863-1923)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book approaches the Ottoman period of Robert College, founded by American missionaries in Constantinople in 1863, by focusing on hitherto insufficiently\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eexplored aspects of its sesquicentennial history, related to its nature and educational ideals, as well as to its student body. Being based on the college's archives, dispersed in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTurkey and the United States, the government archives of Ottoman and early Republican period, as well as other vernacular archives, the book delineates the specific place and role\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof the college in the field of Ottoman education by promoting Protestant ideals through liberal education. The so-called \"secular Protestantism\" affected the whole concept of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eeducation practiced at the college and it affected more or less the students' mindset. The college put emphasis on the formation of strong characters in its students so as to make\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethem able to take responsibility for their own life and development. It was achieved, not only nor even mainly through the course of studies in a wide variety of fields, but also\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethrough the all-round atmosphere in the college and especially the personal relationship between the students and their instructors. On the basis of statistics drawn from various\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003erelevant sources, the book traces out the dynamics in student enrollment and outlines those periods in the college's history in which certain nationalities were prevalent, not\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eonly in terms of physical presence but also in terms of influence in the student body. The book provides also prosopographical research of the Bulgarian and Turkish students, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebased on data collected from the catalogues of students, preserved in the college's archives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Orlin Sabev\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 6057462181\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9786057462183\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Forum Tauri\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/20\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 434\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.61h x 6.69w x 1.18d","brand":"Orlin Sabev","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48437498085631,"sku":"9786057462183","price":82.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e925a792-00e3-4363-b785-a0c5b30e28f0.jpg?v=1777162220","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/spiritus-roberti-orlin-sabev-9786057462183","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}