Turkey: A Modern History / Edition 3

by Erik J. Zürcher

Overview

Covers Turkeys continuing incorporation into the capitalist world, & the modernization of the state & society in the face of this challenge. Beginning by exploring the closer links with Europe forged in the period following the French Revolution, Zurcher looks at the changing face of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th cent. In the period since since 1950, he focuses on the growth of mass politics; the 3 military coups; rapid industrialization & migration; human rights; the global economy; the alliance with the West, & Turkeys ambivalent relations with the Middle East; the explosive Kurdish question; & the role of Islam.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2901860649584
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/04/2004
Series:	International Library of Human Geography
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

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