Shortest History of Turkey

From the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic

AvBenjamin C. Fortna

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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This brilliant distillation traces Turkey's long and complicated history from the rise and decline of the Ottoman Empire – the most enduring, and perhaps the most important, Islamic empire in history – to the emergence of the modern Turkish Republic in the early twentieth century and the populist, authoritarian leadership of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan today.Over more than nine centuries of change, Turkey has been a cultural melting pot, straddling Asia and Europe, and a nation-state bent on ethnic unity. It has seen conquest and reform, appeals to tradition and calls to modernise. It has been a home to Christians, Jews, Muslims and more, and it has aggressively pursued both secularisation and Islamisation.In The Shortest History of Turkey, historian Benjamin Fortna offers a concise yet nuanced overview of this complex trajectory, revealing how persistent tensions between opposing visions for Turkey have shaped, and continue to shape, the country and its people.The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-06-23
Mått:130 x 197 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Shortest History Series
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:The Experiment LLC
ISBN:9798893031232

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Benjamin C. Fortna is professor of history and director of the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Arizona and formerly professor of the history of the Middle East, SOAS, at the University of London. He received his degrees from Yale, Columbia, and the University of Chicago, and has published numerous books on the Ottoman Empire, the early Turkish Republic, and modern Turkey. He has appeared on the BBC programs Who Do You Think You Are? and The Ottomans: Europe's Muslim Emperors. He lives in Tucson, AZ.

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"[An] astute combination of the entertaining and informed. . . . What comes across most significantly is what a multicultural melting pot Turkey has been and still is."

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Timeline Introduction: Competing Visions of Turkey PART 1: THE OTTOMAN EMPIREOttoman OriginsFrom Principality to EmpireImperial ConsolidationImperial HeightsDecentralizationPART 2: FROM EMPIRE TO REPUBLICInternal and External ChallengesReformsImperial ResistanceOpposition and Revolution: The “Young Turks”The Great WarThe “National” MovementPART 3: THE TURKISH REPUBLICThe Early Republic, or the “Single Party Period”The Democratic EraReturn of the Guardian StateTowards a Turkish–Islamic SynthesisThe Justice and Development Party EraConclusion: Republican Centennial and Imperial Ghosts Acknowledgments Image credits Index