Turkey (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
208
Utgivningsdatum
2017-08-10
Upplaga
Revised Edition
Förlag
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Illustratör/Fotograf
black and white 11 Illustrations
Illustrationer
11 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensioner
200 x 134 x 18 mm
Vikt
218 g
ISBN
9780500292990

Turkey

A Short History

av Norman Stone
Häftad,  Engelska, 2017-08-10
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From the eminent historian Norman Stone, who has lived and worked in the country since 1997, comes this concise survey of Turkeys relations with its immediate neighbours and the wider world from the 11th century to the present day. Stone deftly conducts the reader through this story, from the arrival of the Seljuks in Anatolia in the eleventh century to todays thriving republic. It is an historical account of epic proportions, featuring rapacious leaders such as Genghis Khan and Tamerlane through the glories of Sultan Sleyman the Magnificent to Kemal Atatrk, the reforming genius and founder of modern Turkey. At its height, the Ottoman Empire was a superpower that brought Islam to the gates of Vienna. Stone examines the reasons for the empires long decline and shows how it gave birth to the modern Turkish republic, where east and west, religion and secularism, tradition and modernity still form vibrant elements of national identity. Norman Stone brilliantly draws out the larger themes of Turkeys history, resulting in a book that is a masterly exposition of the historians craft.
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'A fanfare for modern Turkey and a vivid, provocative, often funny, always insightful account of how it came about If you really dont know why a portrait of Ataturk hangs in almost every shop in Turkey, read this book' - Guardian 'Arresting Stones Turkey breaks the popular mould and introduces its readers to a place beyond their presumptions' - Sunday Times 'Absolutely splendid pithy, straightforward, superbly argued' - Country Life 'Constantly exhilarating . However many histories of Turkey you have read, you will never have read one as incisive, combative and sure-footed as this one' - Cornucopia

Övrig information

Norman Stone is Director of the Turkish-Russian Centre at Bilkent University, Ankara. He was formerly Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford and also taught for many years at Cambridge University. Between 1987 and 1992 Stone worked as Margaret Thatchers Foreign Policiy Advisor. Norman Stone now lives in Oxford and Istanbul.

Innehållsförteckning

Prelude; 1. Origins; 2. World Empire; 3. Zenith; 4. Shadows; 5. The Eighteenth Century; 6. The Long Defensive; 7. End of Empire; 8. Crash; Epilogue

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