Turkey: A Modern History - Couverture souple

Zürcher, Erik J.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1850438269 ISBN 13 : 9781850438267

Editeur : I.B. Tauris, 1994

Synopsis

The book covers a broad sweep of history, exploring the ways in which Turkey became a part of the modern capitalist world of the great European powers, and the beginning of modernization and reform following the French Revolution and Revolutionary wars. It traces Turkish history through two centuries of turmoil: the end of the Ottoman empire, the establishment of the Turkish republic, the Kemalist period and the time of troubled democracy to the present. The book also looks at the three military coups in the post-Second World War period, and the subsequent return to democracy, the human rights questions, the current economic situation and relations with the IMF, Turkey's integration into the Western alliance and the bid for membership of the European community, and the re-emergence of the age-old issues: the Kurdish question and the place of Islam in the Turkish state. As the first book of its kind since the publication of Bernard Lewis's "The Emergence of Modern Turkey" over 30 years ago, this book explores the evolution of cultural, religious, social and economic life though two centuries as well as political transformation, and will be read by all students of the Middle East, as well as general readers.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This revised edition builds upon and updates its twin themes of Turkey's continuing incorporation into the capitalist world and the modernization of state and society. It begins with the forging of closer links with Europe after the French Revolution, and the changing face of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century. Zurcher argues that Turkey's history between 1908 and 1950 should be seen as a unity, and offers a strongly revisionist interpretation of Turkey's founding father, Kemal Ataturk. In his account of the period since 1950, Zurcher focuses on the growth of mass politics; the three military coups; the thorny issue of Turkey's human right's record; the alliance with the West and relations with the European Community; Turkey's ambivalent relations with the Middle East; the increasingly explosive Kurdish question; and the continuing political instability and growth of Islam.

Revue de presse

A valuable addition to scholarly literature. --Andrew Mango, TLS

Exceptionally well-written and offering a perspective that is unique in the field of Turkish studies. --Donald Quataert, State University of New York at Binghamton

A very valuable book which should interest a wide readership... as a text book it meets a very real need: there is no real rival. --William Hale, SOAS, University of London

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: I.B. Tauris
• Date d'édition: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1850438269
• ISBN 13: 9781850438267
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 388
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible