Turkey
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
From the ruins of the Ottoman Empire to the turbulent birth of a modern secular republic, Turkey by Andrew Mango is an authoritative and vivid portrait of one of the world's most historically consequential nations. Mango, a renowned British scholar and journalist with decades of expertise in Turkish affairs, chronicles the country's complex transformation under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, mapping the social, political, and geographic forces that shaped a nation straddling two continents and multiple civilisations. Part of the Thames and Hudson New Nations and Peoples Library series, this compact yet richly detailed volume presents Turkey's ethnic diversity, its evolving national identity, and the enduring tensions between tradition and modernity with remarkable clarity and precision. Mango's prose is measured and authoritative, drawing on deep cultural knowledge to illuminate the contradictions at the heart of Turkish society — a nation at once ancient and urgently modern. For anyone seeking to understand a country that has perpetually stood at the crossroads of East and West, this essential study raises as many questions as it answers.
Author: Andrew Mango
Format: Hardback
Genre: Asian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
From the ruins of the Ottoman Empire to the turbulent birth of a modern secular republic, Turkey by Andrew Mango is an authoritative and vivid portrait of one of the world's most historically consequential nations. Mango, a renowned British scholar and journalist with decades of expertise in Turkish affairs, chronicles the country's complex transformation under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, mapping the social, political, and geographic forces that shaped a nation straddling two continents and multiple civilisations. Part of the Thames and Hudson New Nations and Peoples Library series, this compact yet richly detailed volume presents Turkey's ethnic diversity, its evolving national identity, and the enduring tensions between tradition and modernity with remarkable clarity and precision. Mango's prose is measured and authoritative, drawing on deep cultural knowledge to illuminate the contradictions at the heart of Turkish society — a nation at once ancient and urgently modern. For anyone seeking to understand a country that has perpetually stood at the crossroads of East and West, this essential study raises as many questions as it answers.