The remaking of republican Turkey memory and modernity since the fall of the Ottoman Empire

Between 1945 and 1960, the birth of a multi-party democracy and NATO membership radically transformed Turkey's foreign relations and domestic politics. As Turkish politicians, intellectuals and voters rethought their country's relationship with its past and its future to facilitate democra...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Danforth, Nicholas L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York Cambridge University Press 2021
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Collection: Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • A nation votes : democratic modernity for the masses
  • Turkey attends the American classroom : modernization as U.S. policy and propaganda
  • Europe in Asia and Asia in Europe : synthetic identities and the promise of paradox
  • Multi-purpose empire : reinventing Ottoman history in Republican Turkey
  • Istanbul yesterday and today : making the past modern
  • Ottomans, Arabs, and Americans : geography and identity in Turkish diplomacy
  • The path to progress and to God : Islamic modernism for the Cold War