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Politics and the peasantry in post-war Turkey : social history, culture and modernization / Sinan Yildirmaz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yildirmaz, Sinan, author.
- Series:
- Library of Ottoman studies ; v. 46.
- Library of Ottoman studies ; 46
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nation-building--Turkey--History--20th century.
- Nation-building.
- Peasants--Turkey--History--20th century.
- Peasants.
- Peasants--Turkey--Social conditions--20th century.
- Social conditions.
- History.
- Turkey--History--1918-1960.
- Turkey.
- Turkey--Politics and government--1918-1960.
- Politics and government.
- Peasants--Social conditions.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 294 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2017.
- Summary:
- "When the Ottoman Empire collapsed following the First World War, the feudal system which had survived untouched in much of Anatolia began to change. Kemal Ataturk's task of building a nation 'from the people up' meant that the peasantry, by far Turkey's largest ethnographic group, became an important symbol of social cohesion. Here, Sinan Yildirmaz analyses the history of modern Turkey through the material culture of this peasantry - their speeches, social club documents, art and diaries - and reveals a rich social and political life which flowered after the Second World War. Politics and the Peasantry in Post-War Turkey is the first history to show how the changing peasantry laid the foundations for the modern Turkish state, and will be essential reading for students and scholars of the Ottoman Empire and of the History of Modern Turkey."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 1 Peasants in Theory and the Development of Rural Sociology in Turkey 14
- 2 Peasants Moving Towards Cities: the Transformation of the Rural Structure, Rural Migration and the Gecekondu 51
- 3 The Peasantry as an Active Component of Politics 116
- 4 The Making of the "Village Literature" 201.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-290) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781780761138
- 1780761139
- OCLC:
- 965716960
- Publisher Number:
- 99970423608
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