{"product_id":"2026200014503-secondhand-modern-turkey","title":"Modern Turkey","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\n\nLewis, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49216196116699,"sku":"2026200014503-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/527ac54c-5837-4334-aec0-f08fa2a009f6.png?v=1788405073","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200014503-secondhand-modern-turkey","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}