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Author Zürcher, Erik Jan.

Title Turkey : a modern history / Erik J. Zürcher
Published London ; New York : I.B. Tauris : [Distributed by St. Martin's Press], [1993, 1994]
©1993

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Description xii, 381 : maps ; 23 cm
Contents Introduction: Periodization, Theory and Methodology -- Pt. I. Western Influences and Early Attempts at Modernization. 1. The Ottoman Empire at the end of the Eighteenth Century. 2. Between Tradition and Innovation: Sultan Selim III and the 'New Order', 1789-1807. 3. The Early Years of Sultan Mahmut II: the centre tries to regain control. 4. The Later Years of Sultan Mahmut II: the start of the reforms. 5. The Era of the Tanzimat, 1839-71. 6. The Crisis of 1873-8 and its Aftermath. 7. Reactionary Despotism or Culmination of the Reforms: The reign of Sultan Abdulhamit II -- Pt. II. The Young Turk Era in Turkish History, 1908-50. 8. The Second Constitutional Period. 9. The Struggle for Independence. 10. The Emergence of the One-Party State, 1923-7. 11. The Kemalist One-Party State, 1925-45. 12. The Transition to Democracy, 1945-50 -- Pt. III. A Troubled Democracy. 13. The Rule of the Democratic Party, 1950-60. 14. The Second Turkish Republic, 1960-80
15. The Third Republic: Turkey since 1980 -- Biographical Notes: some important figures in Ottoman and Turkish history
Notes Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [326]-343) and index
Subject Atatürk, Kemal, 1881-1938.
SUBJECT Turkey -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138788
Turkey -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138829
Turkey -- History -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138821
Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138802
Turkey -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138799
LC no. 94060174
ISBN 1850436142
1850438269 (paperback)