Turkey: A Modern History

Synopsis

This revised edition builds upon and updates its twin themes of turkey's continuing incorporation into the capitalist world and the modernization of state and society. It begins with the forging of closer links with europe after the french revolution, and the changing face of the ottoman empire in the 19th century. Zürcher argues that turkey's history between 1908 and 1950 should be seen as a unity, and offers a strongly revisionist interpretation of turkey's founding father, kemal atatürk.