Turkey Before and After Ataturk: Internal and External Affairs

by Sylvia Kedourie (Editor)

Overview

Turkey's modern history has been unstable and contradictory. National identity continues to be an issue as Turks are faced with joining the West and preserving their own culture. The emergence of Islamicism contributes to the question of how safe the secular constitutional democracy is.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136325595
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/12/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	296
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Sylvia Kedourie

Table of Contents

The Review - Daniel Mandel "This is a useful scholarly compendium of the sort we have come to expect from Sylvia Kedourie." "There is no doubt that the contributors to this study have been judiciousy chosen and that the book as a whole is a useful compendium of scholarship on Turkey." Southeast European&Black Sea Studies "subject of great interest to those who wish to understand the political, ideological and social environment in Turkey during the Kemalist era...useful and refreshing in that the majority of its papers seek to widen the lens through which the late Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey are usually studied and understood.

Editorial Reviews

Eight of the 11 contributors are Turkish scholars, the others being from the US and Britain. They speak little about Atat<:u>rk himself, who founded the republic after World War I, but concentrate on the changes and continuities across that divide. They analyze the tension between becoming part of the western economy and maintaining cultural identity, and between secular democracy and millennial revolutionary vision. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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