This is the best one volume interpretive history of the historical, intellectual, philosophical, and political origins of the ideal of republicanism in the late Ottoman Empire and in the Turkish Republic after its creation in 1923. It is a remarkable, erudite interpretation that contests previous interpretations by many foremost European, American, and Turkish scholars of Turkey. . . . A ... Read moremarvelous book.
Choice Shortlisted for the 2018 Gladstone Prize, Royal Historical Society One of CHOICE's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017 This boldly argued and beautifully written book offers the most comprehensive account of this topic available. Turnaoglu is aware of her mission as both a scholar and public intellectual, and is not afraid to challenge popular ideologies and myths about history and global values in Europe as well as Turkey.
Cemil Aydin, author of The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia: Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought This is truly a work of depth, narrative power, and substantive importance. Turnaoglu ably and deftly argues that approaching Turkish republicanism exclusively in Kemalist terms would be a serious mistake, showing instead how it represents the outcome of centuries of intellectual debates and discussions.
M. S kr Hanioglu, author of Atat rk: An Intellectual Biography Show Less