Young Turk Legacy and Nation Building

From the Ottoman Empire to Atatürk's Turkey

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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The grand narrative of "The Young Turk Legacy and Nation Building" is that of the essential continuity of the late Ottoman Empire with the Republic of Turkey that was founded in 1923. Erik J. Zurcher shows that Kemal's 'ideological toolkit', which included positivism, militarism, nationalism and a state-centred world view, was shared by many other Young Turks. Authoritarian rule, a one-party state, a legal framework based on European principles, advanced European-style bureaucracy, financial administration, military and educational reforms and state-control of Islam, can all be found in the late Ottoman Empire, as can policies of demographic engineering. The book focuses on the attempts of the Young Turks to save their empire through forced modernization as well as on the attempts of their Kemalist successors to build a strong national state. The decade of almost continuous warfare, ethnic conflict and forced migration between 1911 and 1922 forms the background to these attempts and accordingly occupies a central position in this volume. This is a powerful history reflecting and contributing to the latest research from a leading historian of modern Turkey.It is essential for all readers interested in the history of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, and for an understanding of a key player in the politics of the Middle East and Europe.

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Utgivningsdatum:2010-07-30
Mått:155 x 231 x 25 mm
Vikt:518 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:368
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781848852723

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Erik J. Zurcher is Professor of Turkish Studies at the University of Leiden and Director of the International Institute of Social History at Amsterdam. He is the author of numerous books on Turkey, including Turkey: A Modern History (I.B.Tauris), which has been translated into seven languages; Arming the State: Military Conscription in the Middle East and Central Asia, 1775-1925; Identity Politics in Central Asia and the Muslim World; and Men of Order: Authoritarian Modernization under Ataturk and Reza Shah (all I.B.Tauris).

Innehållsförteckning

Preface: Thirty Years of Turkish HistoryI. Sources and Literature1. The Politician as Historian, Historians in Poitics: The Nutuk (Speech) of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk2. Young Turk Memoirs as a Historical Source3. The Historiography of Constitutional Revolution: Broad Consensus, Some Disagreemant and a Missed Opportunity4. The Rise and Fall of Modern Turkey: Bernard Lewis's Emergence fifty years onII. Imperial Twilight 5. The Ottoman Empire 1950-1922 - Unavoidable Failure?6. The Ides of April. A Fundamentalist Uprising in Instanbul in 1909?7. Sultan Mekhmet V's Visit to Kosovo in June 19118. Who were the Young Turks?9. The Young Turk Mindset10. Ataturk as a Unionist 11. The Ottoman Legacy of the Kemalist RepublicIII. The Great War12. The Ottoman Conscription System in Theory and Practice, 1844-191813. The Ottoman Soldier in World War I14. The Ottoman Empire and Armistice of Moudhros15. Renewal and Silence. Postwar Unionist and Kemalist Rhetoric on the Armenian Genocide IV. Toward the Nation State16. Young Turks, Ottoman Muslims and Turkish Nationalists. Identity Politics 1908-3817. Were Progressives Conservatives?18. Institution Building in the Kemalist Republic compared with Pahlevi Iran: The People's Party19. Touring Anatolia at the end of the Ataturk Era: Kemalist Turkey observed by Western Visitors20. Islam in the Service of the Calipahe and the Secular State21. Turning Points in and Missed Opportunities in the Modern History of Turkey: where things could gone differently?AppendixBibliography of Erik Jan Zürcher