A Short History
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Köp båda 2 för 320 kr'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
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.
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