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Title: Turkey: A Modern History by Erik J. Zurcher ISBN: 1-86064-222-5 Publisher: I.B. Tauris Pub. Date: January, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.12 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Turkey
Comment: It tells everything you want to learn about Turkey... And i am sure when you read it you will admire Ataturk ,founder of Turkey, like Che Guera or Martin Luther King.
Rating: 3
Summary: Turkey: A Modern History
Comment: Zürcher, professor of history at the University of Amsterdam, has written a synthetic account of Turkey over the two centuries 1789-1991. The book will probably become the standard English-language account, for it is fast-moving, comprehensive, and reliable. By looking at the Young Turk and the Atatürk eras as a single whole, stretching from 1908 to 1950, it offers valuable new insights into a time too little understood. As for the future, Zürcher sensibly concludes that the country's two main problems are inflation and the Kurdish question.
At the same time, Zürcher's text reflects the anti-Turkish biases regretfully so prevalent among Europeans. On the incendiary issue of Armenian genocide during World War I, he writes that "this author at least is of the opinion that there was a centrally controlled policy of extermination, instigated by the CUP [i.e., the top leadership]." Without condemning Atatürk, Zürcher knocks him down a peg or two. Here we learn that his rule had "totalitarian tendencies." There we are told that his ideology "lacked coherence and . . . emotional appeal." In another place, we find out that his interpretation of the Turkish national movement "distort[s] the historical picture." Instead of this grudging attitude, it would be more helpful if the author (and Europeans in general) celebrated the Republic of Turkey as a success story and as a model for the Muslim world to emulate. The Turks need that boost; and the outside world very much needs for them to succeed in their bold, Atatürkist experiment.
Middle East Quarterly, June 1995
Rating: 5
Summary: Modern Turkey's Real History
Comment: I have been studying this book throughly in college and also using it for writing essays. It is a great review of the Turkish History from a very objective point of view. It gives just enough information to get an idea of the political history of Turkey, but it may as well a bit too detailed for those who are not interested in political science. Zurcher's book focuses on more political issues than cultural issues; it tells about the political leaders and their policies but it is not a biography on any of the leaders of modern Turkey. The book does not at all talk about gender issues or private lives of the leaders but has a clear understanding of good and bad effects they had on the making of modern Turkey. To those who are interested in the life of Ataturk, I would reccomend Lord Kinross's book "Ataturk" which is available at Amazon. In general Zurcher's book is a great source for students and anyone who is interested in politics and history.
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Title: The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922 by Donald Quataert, William Beik, T. C. W. Blanning ISBN: 0521633605 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 13 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: The Emergence of Modern Turkey (Studies in Middle Eastern History) by Bernard Lewis ISBN: 0195134605 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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Title: Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds by Stephen Kinzer ISBN: 0374528667 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 04 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Turkey Unveiled: A History of Modern Turkey by Nicole Pope, Hugh Pope, Nichole Pope ISBN: 1585670960 Publisher: Overlook Press Pub. Date: 05 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Modern Iran: Roots and Results of Revolution by Nikki R. Keddie ISBN: 0300098561 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.50 |
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