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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reinkowski, Maurus, 1962- author.

Contributor:

Walsh, William J., translator.

Series:

Ottoman and Turkish studies.

Ottoman and Turkish Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Turkey--History--1918-1960.

Turkey.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (374 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Brookline, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2023]

Summary:

A comprehensive, readable history of the Republic of Turkeythat 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 Atatrks 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 Erdoans electoral autocracy since the 2010s. This book makes us understand Turkeys historical trajectory in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the fate of its various communities and ethnic groupsin particular Alevis and Kurdsand argues that a particular trait of Turkish political culture is its constant fluctuation between confidence and contention, grandeur and grievance.

Contents:

Farewell to the Ottoman Empire

The Kemalist Republic, 1923-1950

Precarious pluralism, 1950-1980

The promise of Islamic conservatism, 1980-2013

The road to another Republic, 2013-the present.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

979-88-87192-19-2