Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Ebru Boyar is Professor at the Middle East Technical University, Turkey. Her publications include Ottomans, Turks and the Balkans: Empire Lost, Relations Altered (I.B.Tauris, 2007) and A Social History of Ottoman Istanbul (2010).
Kate Feet is Director of the Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies, University of Cambridge, UK. Her publications include European and Islamic Trade in the Early Ottoman State (1999) and A Social History of Ottoman Istanbul (2010). She is co-editor of The Cambridge History of Turkey: Volume 2 (2012).
This book takes readers through the major events and debates in the modern history of the Republic of Turkey. Beginning with the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of WWI and the victory of nationalist forces in 1923, it relays the key turning points, issues and trends in the Republic’s history. It gives readers a strong grounding in the political history as well as historiographical debates including:
- the nation building process and nationalisms;
- the development of political Islam
- the impact on Turkey of the Cold War
- decolonisation
- the role of the army in politics and the dominance of the coup in historiography
- class structure
- human rights
- civil society
- secularism
- the Ottoman legacy
The book incorporates the very latest thinking on the study of Turkey into its narrative, covering essential issues hitherto left out of introductory texts which prioritise security such as migration (both internal within Turkey and out of and into Turkey); economic models; Turkey’s geostrategic position; energy resources and policies; the environment; gender: and entertainment culture including sport.
Each of the book’s 13 chronological chapters includes a chronology of major events and a further reading and sources section which include Turkish short stories, novels or poems in translation, online open access sources, films and documentaries and text boxes containing, poetry, film posters, newspaper headlines, short biographies, adverts, and information on specific events such as the introduction of TV feature throughout the text to aid learning. Breaking with the Cold War paradigm and its focus on the coups and security as well as approaches to Turkey which over emphasise the Ottoman past, this book offers readers a new assessment of the Republic which reflects the diverse approaches to its history prevalent in current scholarship.
Introduction
1. 1918-1923 From the Collapse of an Empire to the Rise of a Nation State
2. 1923-1929 Creating Turkey
3. 1929-1939 Consolidating the Nation
4. 1939-1945 The Ordeal of the Second World War
5. 1945-1954 Multi-Party Politics in a Bi-Polar World
6. 1954-1961 Populist Politics and the Politicisation of the Military
7. 1961-1968 The Rise of Political Diversity
8. 1968-1978 The Search for Alternative Politics
9. 1978-1983 The Anatomy of a Military Coup
10. 1983-1991 The Rise of Neo-Liberal Politics
11. 1991- 2002 Political Instability and Economic Crises
12. 2002-2010 The Rule of ‘Moderate Islam’
13. 2010-2023 The End of the Separation of Powers
Chronology
Who is Who
Bibliography
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Ebru Boyar is Professor at the Middle East Technical University, Turkey. Her publications include Ottomans, Turks and the Balkans: Empire Lost, Relations Altered (I.B.Tauris, 2007) and A Social History of Ottoman Istanbul (2010).
Kate Feet is Director of the Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies, University of Cambridge, UK. Her publications include European and Islamic Trade in the Early Ottoman State (1999) and A Social History of Ottoman Istanbul (2010). She is co-editor of The Cambridge History of Turkey: Volume 2 (2012).