The History of Turkey : Grandeur and Grievance / Maurus Reinkowski, translated from German by William J. Walsh

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reinkowski, Maurus, Author.

Contributor:

Walsh, William J., Contributor.

Series:

Ottoman and Turkish Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Turkey--History--1918-1960.

Turkey.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (374 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A comprehensive, readable history of the Republic of Turkey that gives equal weight to all periods in the first century of the Republic of Turkey.The republican order of Turkey seems not to have changed much since its foundation in 1923, but there were dramatic transformations: From Atatürk's modernization dictatorship in the 1920s and 1930s, over the massive migration into the cities and the military coups in the second half of the twentieth century, up to Recep Tayyip Erdoğans electoral autocracy since the 2010s. This book makes us understand Turkey's historical trajectory in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the fate of its various communities and ethnic groups-in particular Alevis and Kurds-and argues that a particular trait of Turkish political culture is its constant fluctuation between confidence and contention, grandeur and grievance.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1: Farewell to the Ottoman Empire

Chapter 2: The Kemalist Republic, 19231950

Chapter 3: Precarious Pluralism, 19501980

Chapter 4: The Promise of Islamic Conservatism, 19802013

Chapter 5: The Road to Another Republic, 2013 to the Present

Update on Turkey in the Years 20212023

Acknowledgements

Timeline

Abbreviations

Bibliography

Map: Turkey and its neighbors

Index of Names

Index of Geographic Names

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Jan 2024)

ISBN:

979-88-87192-18-5

OCLC:

1378309702