The Emergence Of Modern Turkey
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few works of modern historical scholarship have reshaped our understanding of a nation as profoundly as Bernard Lewis's The Emergence of Modern Turkey — a magisterial account of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary political transformations. Tracing the Ottoman Empire's long decline and the dramatic birth of the Turkish Republic under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Lewis chronicles the sweeping reforms — secularisation, Westernisation, linguistic revolution — that remade an ancient civilisation in the span of a single generation, forging a new national identity from the ruins of a centuries-old imperial order. Lewis writes with the precision of a scholar and the authority of a master historian, drawing on a vast command of Turkish, Arabic, and European sources to present a narrative that is at once rigorously analytical and compellingly readable. This second edition deepened his original arguments, situating Turkey's modernisation within the broader currents of Islamic history and the enduring tension between tradition and reform — a tension that remains unresolved to this day. For anyone seeking to understand the forces that shaped the contemporary Middle East, this landmark study poses a question that history has yet to fully answer: can a civilisation reinvent itself, and at what cost?
Author: Bernard Lewis
Format: Paperback
Genre: Asian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few works of modern historical scholarship have reshaped our understanding of a nation as profoundly as Bernard Lewis's The Emergence of Modern Turkey — a magisterial account of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary political transformations. Tracing the Ottoman Empire's long decline and the dramatic birth of the Turkish Republic under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Lewis chronicles the sweeping reforms — secularisation, Westernisation, linguistic revolution — that remade an ancient civilisation in the span of a single generation, forging a new national identity from the ruins of a centuries-old imperial order. Lewis writes with the precision of a scholar and the authority of a master historian, drawing on a vast command of Turkish, Arabic, and European sources to present a narrative that is at once rigorously analytical and compellingly readable. This second edition deepened his original arguments, situating Turkey's modernisation within the broader currents of Islamic history and the enduring tension between tradition and reform — a tension that remains unresolved to this day. For anyone seeking to understand the forces that shaped the contemporary Middle East, this landmark study poses a question that history has yet to fully answer: can a civilisation reinvent itself, and at what cost?