Reşat Kasaba

Sibel Bozdoğan

Sibel Bozdogan

In the first two decades after World War II, social scientists heralded Turkey as an exemplar of a “modernizing” nation in the Western mold. The essays in this book are the first attempt to examine the Turkish experiment with modernity from a broad, interdisciplinary perspective, encompassing the fields of history, the social sciences, the humanities, architecture, and urban planning.

Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey

Modernization; Turkey; economic and social indicators.

Türkiye'de modernleşme ve ulusal kimlik

Kate Fleet

Suraiya Faroqhi

Metin Kunt

A comprehensive four-volume set relating the history of Turkey from Byzantium up to and including modern-day Turkey.

The Cambridge History of Turkey

Suraiya N. Faroqhi

Ibrahim Metin Kunt

Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of Turkey covers the period from 1603 to 1839.

This history of the Ottoman Empire focuses on the migrant groups that lived within its boundaries and their changing relationship to the state's central authorities. Mobile groups played an important role in shaping Ottoman institutions and the early republican structures of modern Turkey.

Ottoman Nomads, Migrants, and Refugees

A Moveable Empire

Joel S. Migdal

Ellis Goldberg

"In recent years there has been a marked growth in the number and influence of social movements and organizations working to expand social, political, and civil rights, and to constrain the power of the states in many countries in the Middle East. At the same time many of the regimes in the area have introduced practices and institutions designed to make their rule more democratic in order to enhance their domestic and international standing and legitimacy, as well as to spur economic growth." "As a whole, the book demonstrates that neither the region's overgrown state structures nor the corresponding weakness of autonomous societal organizations can be explained by referring to cultural characteristics of the people in the Middle East or to the precepts of their religions. True explanations, the authors argue, should be framed historically. They pay special attention to the relations among the various groups and regions of the Middle East and to those between the Middle East and western Europe. The authors emphasize the important role played by economic issues and constraints in broadening or narrowing the scope of democracy at various points in time; and finally, they are in agreement in seeing religion and culture of the Middle East not in static and essentialist terms but as dynamic phenomena that grow independently and even in opposition to existing political authorities."--BOOK JACKET.

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