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100 1 $aZürcher, Erik Jan.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85002308
245 10 $aTurkey :$ba modern history /$cErik J. Zürcher.
260 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bI.B. Tauris,$c1993.
300 $axii, 381 :$bmaps ;$c23 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [326]-343) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: Periodization, Theory and Methodology -- Pt. I. Western Influences and Early Attempts at Modernization. 1. The Ottoman Empire at the end of the Eighteenth Century. 2. Between Tradition and Innovation: Sultan Selim III and the 'New Order', 1789-1807. 3. The Early Years of Sultan Mahmut II: the centre tries to regain control. 4. The Later Years of Sultan Mahmut II: the start of the reforms. 5. The Era of the Tanzimat, 1839-71. 6. The Crisis of 1873-8 and its Aftermath. 7. Reactionary Despotism or Culmination of the Reforms: The reign of Sultan Abdulhamit II -- Pt. II. The Young Turk Era in Turkish History, 1908-50. 8. The Second Constitutional Period. 9. The Struggle for Independence. 10. The Emergence of the One-Party State, 1923-7. 11. The Kemalist One-Party State, 1925-45. 12. The Transition to Democracy, 1945-50 -- Pt. III. A Troubled Democracy. 13. The Rule of the Democratic Party, 1950-60. 14. The Second Turkish Republic, 1960-80. 15. The Third Republic: Turkey since 1980.
505 0 $aBiographical Notes: some important figures in Ottoman and Turkish history.
520 $aThe modern history of Turkey has been marked by momentous political transformations and the rapid evolution of all aspects of cultural, social and economic life. The first comprehensive history to appear in twenty years, Erik J. Zurcher's book takes as its twin themes Turkey's continuing incorporation into the capitalist world and the modernization of the state and society in the face of this challenge.
520 8 $aBeginning by exploring the closer links with Europe forged in the period following the French Revolution, the book looks at the changing face of the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century. Zurcher charts its progressive decline in the face of emerging nationalisms and European imperialism, and the fruitless attempts by the ruling elite to reverse the process through modernizing reforms.
520 8 $aArguing that Turkey's history between 1908 and 1950 should be seen as one continuous period, dominated as it was by the efforts of a coalition of Young Turk bureaucrats and officers to construct a sense of Turkish national identity and to introduce a programme of radical modernization and secularization, Zurcher goes on to offer a substantial and strongly revisionist interpretation of the influence of Turkey's 'founding father', Kemal Ataturk.
520 8 $aIn its account of the period since 1950, the book focuses on the growth of mass politics; the three military coups; rapid industrialization and migration; the thorny issue of Turkey's human rights record; integration into the international global economy; the alliance with the West (including membership of NATO and efforts to join the EC) and Turkey's ambivalent relations with the Middle East; the increasingly explosive Kurdish question, and the role of Islam in an avowedly secular state.
520 8 $aOffering a new and original reading of Turkish history and drawing on all the most recent studies, this is an important book that will be of great interest to students as well as to readers with a general interest in Turkey.
651 0 $aTurkey$xHistory$y19th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138821
651 0 $aTurkey$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138829
653 0 $aTurkey$aHistory, 1918-
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