The Cambridge History of Turkey (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521620963)

Turkey'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.

Author: Reşat Kasaba
ISBN-10: 0521620961
ISBN-13: 9780521620963
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/17/2008
Pages: 600
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.40lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.10w x 1.60d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2008 pg. 40