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Crescent and star : Turkey between two worlds / Stephen Kinzer.
LIBRA DR576 .K56 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kinzer, Stephen.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Manners and customs.
- Armed Forces.
- Political participation.
- History.
- Civil society.
- Ethnic relations.
- Turkey--Politics and government--20th century.
- Turkey.
- Politics and government.
- Turkey--Ethnic relations--History--20th century.
- Civil society--Turkey--History--20th century.
- Turkey--Armed Forces--Political activity--History--20th century.
- Turkey--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 252 pages : map ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Crescent & star
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.
- Summary:
- This examination is Kinzer's report on the truth about a nation of contradictions, poised between Europe and Asia, between the glories of its Ottoman past and its hopes for a democratic future. His compelling book shows why Turkey could become "the most audaciously successful nation of the twenty-first century." Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0374131430
- OCLC:
- 45963170
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