The Remaking of Republican Turkey (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108833240)

Between 1945 and 1960, the birth of a multi-party democracy and NATO membership radically transformed Turkey's foreign relations and domestic politics. As Turkish politicians, intellectuals and voters rethought their country's relationship with its past and its future to facilitate democratization, a new alliance with the United States was formed. In this book, Nicholas L. Danforth demonstrates how these transformations helped consolidate a consensus on the nature of Turkish modernity that continues to shape current political and cultural debates. He reveals the surprisingly nuanced and often paradoxical ways that both secular modernizers and their Islamist critics deployed Turkey's famous clich s about East and West, as well as tradition and modernity, to advance their agendas. By drawing on a diverse array of published and archival sources, Danforth offers a tour de force exploration of the relationship between democracy, diplomacy, modernity, Westernization, Ottoman historiography and religion in mid-century Turkey.

Author: Nicholas L. Danforth
ISBN-10: 1108833241
ISBN-13: 9781108833240
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/24/2021
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2022