TURKEY: A MODERN HISTORY PB PB

Building upon and updating its twin themes, this revised edition of Turkey: a Modern History focuses on Turkeys 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. Zurcher argues that Turkeys history, between 1908 and 1950, should be seen as a unity, and offers a strongly revisionist interpretation of Turkeys founding father, Kemal Ataturk. In his account of the period since 1950, Zurcher focuses on: the growth of mass politics; the three military coups; the thorny issue of Turkeys human rights record; integration into the global economy; the alliance with the West and and relations with the European community; Turkeys ambivalent relations with the Middle East; the increasingly explosive Kurdish questions; the economic crisis of 1994; and the continuing political instability and growth of Islam.