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Book SynopsisTurkey's modern history has been shaped by its society and its institutions. In this fourth volume of The Cambridge History of Turkey a team of some of the most distinguished scholars of modern Turkey have come together to explore the interaction between these two aspects of Turkish modernization. The volume begins in the nineteenth century and traces the historical background through the reforms of the late Ottoman Empire, the period of the Young Turks, the War of Independence and the founding of the Ataturk's Republic. Thereafter, the volume focuses on the Republican period to consider a range of themes including political ideology, economic development, the military, migration, Kurdish nationalism, the rise of Islamism, and women's struggle for empowerment. The volume concludes with chapters on art and architecture, literature, and a brief history of Istanbul.
Trade Review"A team of some of the most distinguished scholars of modern Turkey have come together to explore Turkish modernization....Concludes with chapters on art and architecture, literature, and a brief history of Istanbul. Supplementary material in this volume include: a chronology, illustrations and maps, a select bibliography, and an index." --American Reference Books Annual
"Students, both undergraduate and graduate, professors, teachers, doctoral candidates, and the general public have come to rely on Cambridge Histories as the best, most reliable, up-to-date surveys of regional or national histories. In that sense, the latest Cambridge History of Turkey, edited by Resat Kasaba with contributions from Turkish and Anglo-American scholars, does not disappoint.... The volume really represents a large step forward in the historical scholarship on modern Turkey." - World History Bulletin
Table of ContentsChronology; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction Resat Kasaba; Part I. Ottoman Background and Transition: 2. The Tanzimat Carter Findley; 3. The reign of Abdülhamid II Benjamin Fortna; 4. The second constitutional period Sükrü Hanioglu; 5. The struggle for independence Hasan Kayali; 6. Atatürk Andrew Mango; Part II. Republic of Turkey: 7. migration and Turkey: the dynamics of state, society and politics Kemal Kirisci; 8. The migration story of Turks in Germany: from the beginning to the end Levent Soysal; 9. Politics and political parties in Republican Turkey Feroz Ahmad; 10. Economic change in twentieth century Turkey: is the glass more than half full? Sevket Pamuk; 11. Ideology, context, and interest: the Turkish military Ümit Cizre; 12. Kurds and the Turkish State Hamit Bozarslan; 13. Islam and politics in contemporary Turkey Jenny White; 14. Sufism and Islamic groups in contemporary Turkey Ahmet Yükleyen; 15. Contestation and collaboration: women's struggles for empowerment in Turkey Yesim Arat; 16. Art and architecture In Modern Turkey: the Republican period Sibel Bozdogan; 17. The novel in Turkish: narrative tradition to Nobel prize Erdag Göknar; 18. A brief history of modern Istanbul Çaglar Keyder; Bibliography.
