Turkey: A Modern History

by Erik J. Zürcher

Overview

This revised edition builds upon and updates its twin themes of Turkey's continuing incorporation into the capitalist world and the modernization of state and society. It begins with the forging of closer links with Europe after the French Revolution, and the changing face of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century. Zurcher argues that Turkey's history between 1908 and 1950 should be seen as a unity, and offers a strongly revisionist interpretation of Turkey's founding father, Kemal Ataturk. In his account of the period since 1950, Zurcher focuses on the growth of mass politics; the three military coups; the thorny issue of Turkey's human right's record; the alliance with the West and relations with the European Community; Turkey's ambivalent relations with the Middle East; the increasingly explosive Kurdish question; and the continuing political instability and growth of Islam.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781786721839
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	12/21/2017
Series:	International Library of Human Geography
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	480
Sales rank:	716,650
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Erik J. Zurcher is Professor of Turkish Studies at the University of Leiden.

Table of Contents

Preface
• Preface to second edition
• Glossary
• List of Maps
• Introduction: Periodization, Theory and Methodology
• Part I: Western Influences and Early Attempts at Modernization
• The Ottoman Empire at the end of the Eighteenth Century
• Between Tradition and Innovation: Sultan Selim III and the "New Order," 1789-1807
• The Early Years of Sultan Mahmut II: the Center Tries to Regain Control
• The Later Years of Sultan Mahmut II: the Start of the Reforms
• The Era of the Tanzimat, 1839-71
• The Crisis of 1873-8 and its Aftermath
• Reactionary Despotism or Culmination of the Reforms? The Reign of Sultan Abdulhamit II
• Part II: The Young Turk Era in Turkish History, 1908-50
• The Second Constitutional Period
• The Struggle for Independence
• The Emergence of the One-Party State, 1923-7
• The Kemalist One-Party State, 1925-45
• The Transition to Democracy, 1945-50 * Part III: A troubled Democracy
• The Rule of the Democratic Party, 1950-60
• The Second Turkish Republic, 1960-80
• The Third Republic: Turkey since 1980
• Maps
• Bibliographical Survey
• Biographical Notes: Some Important Figures on Ottoman and Turkish History - Index