ISBN:
9781108973779
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9781108833240
,
9781108978200
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 251 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Danforth, Nicholas L. The remaking of Republican Turkey
DDC:
320.4956109/04
Keywords:
Politics and culture
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HISTORY / Middle East / General
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Turkey Politics and government 1918-1960
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Memory
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Turkey Foreign relations 1980-
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Türkei
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Republik
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Modernisierung
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Geschichte 1923-2021
Abstract:
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 democratization, a new alliance with the United States was formed. In this book, Nicholas L. Danforth demonstrates how these transformations helped consolidate a consensus on the nature of Turkish modernity that continues to shape current political and cultural debates. He reveals the surprisingly nuanced and often paradoxical ways that both secular modernizers and their Islamist critics deployed Turkey's famous clichés about East and West, as well as tradition and modernity, to advance their agendas. By drawing on a diverse array of published and archival sources, Danforth offers a tour de force exploration of the relationship between democracy, diplomacy, modernity, Westernization, Ottoman historiography and religion in mid-century Turkey.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1017/9781108973779
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