Modern Turkey
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Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
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From the ashes of the Ottoman Empire rose a republic unlike any other — Modern Turkey by Geoffrey Lewis is an authoritative and incisive account of Turkey's dramatic transformation into a secular, westernised nation-state under the visionary, if iron-fisted, leadership of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Lewis chronicles the sweeping political, social, and cultural revolutions of the twentieth century, detailing how a single generation of reformers dismantled centuries of imperial tradition and rebuilt an entire civilisation from the ground up — replacing Arabic script with the Latin alphabet, abolishing the caliphate, and reorienting a nation between East and West. Lewis, a distinguished scholar of Turkish language and history at Oxford, brings rigorous academic authority and rare linguistic insight to his analysis, producing a work that is both scholarly and compellingly readable. His prose is precise and measured, yet animated by a genuine admiration for the audacity of the Turkish republican experiment. Themes of nationalism, modernisation, secularism, and national identity run throughout the text, situating Turkey within the broader context of post-imperial geopolitics. For anyone seeking to understand how a crumbling empire became one of the twentieth century's most fascinating political experiments, this volume remains an indispensable guide.
Author: Geoffrey Lewis
Format: Hardback
Genre: History
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
From the ashes of the Ottoman Empire rose a republic unlike any other — Modern Turkey by Geoffrey Lewis is an authoritative and incisive account of Turkey's dramatic transformation into a secular, westernised nation-state under the visionary, if iron-fisted, leadership of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Lewis chronicles the sweeping political, social, and cultural revolutions of the twentieth century, detailing how a single generation of reformers dismantled centuries of imperial tradition and rebuilt an entire civilisation from the ground up — replacing Arabic script with the Latin alphabet, abolishing the caliphate, and reorienting a nation between East and West. Lewis, a distinguished scholar of Turkish language and history at Oxford, brings rigorous academic authority and rare linguistic insight to his analysis, producing a work that is both scholarly and compellingly readable. His prose is precise and measured, yet animated by a genuine admiration for the audacity of the Turkish republican experiment. Themes of nationalism, modernisation, secularism, and national identity run throughout the text, situating Turkey within the broader context of post-imperial geopolitics. For anyone seeking to understand how a crumbling empire became one of the twentieth century's most fascinating political experiments, this volume remains an indispensable guide.