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Turkey from Empire to Revolutionary Republic: The Emergence of the Turkish Nation from 1789 to the Present
Sina Aksin
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Paperback. Features treatment of the period before, during and after the First World War, encompassing the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the rise of Ataturk. The final three chapters of this work conclude with the question of EU accession. Num Pages: maps. BIC Classification: 1DVT; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 438.
Sina Ak-in is one of Turkey's most important historians, and published in 1996 the Turkish version of this book, which has already gone into several editions. It was inspired by the author's conviction that in Turkey itself the teaching of 20th-century Turkish history -with which the book is largely concerned -and indeed of the social sciences as a whole is inadequate. As the Bibliographical Note makes clear, the histories of modern Turkey available to Western readers are almost entirely by Western scholars; substantial works in Turkish exist, but have not been translated. The appearance of Ak-in's work in this English ... Read more
Sina Ak-in is one of Turkey's most important historians, and published in 1996 the Turkish version of this book, which has already gone into several editions. It was inspired by the author's conviction that in Turkey itself the teaching of 20th-century Turkish history -with which the book is largely concerned -and indeed of the social sciences as a whole is inadequate. As the Bibliographical Note makes clear, the histories of modern Turkey available to Western readers are almost entirely by Western scholars; substantial works in Turkish exist, but have not been translated. The appearance of Ak-in's work in this English ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
C. Hurst & Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781850658320
SKU
V9781850658320
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About Sina Aksin
Sina Aksin is a professor of modern history at the University of Ankara.
Reviews for Turkey from Empire to Revolutionary Republic: The Emergence of the Turkish Nation from 1789 to the Present
&"Of recent important works on the history of Turkey, this one should rank among the best in recounting the evolution of the modern state from 1789 to the present....The book is replete with important detail, well written in the translated form, and quite suitable to substitute for other works on the subject. . . . Essential."