A Nation of Empire: The Ottoman Legacy of Turkish Modernity
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This innovative study of modern Turkey is the result of many years of ethnographic fieldwork and archival research. Michael Meeker expertly combines anthropological and historical methods to examine the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic in a major region of the country, the eastern Black Sea coast. His most significant finding is that a stateoriented provincial oligarchy played a key role in successive programs of reform over the course of more than two hundred yea...






















