ISBN:
9781435616004
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1435616006
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1282750712
,
9781282750715
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9780857717047
,
0857717049
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 256 pages)
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Illustrations
Series Statement:
Library of modern Middle East studies 66
DDC:
303.4840955
Keywords:
Kemalismus
;
Modernisierung
;
Türkei
;
Iran
Abstract:
In the 1920s Turkey and Iran faced political upheaval as both states attempted to find their routes to modernity. This is the first study to observe the practice of modernization in Turkey and Iran not only from above, by examining the measures adopted by the political regimes of the late Ottomans, Ataturk and Reza Shah, but also from below, exploring how different social levels contributed to the drive for modernity. It is a full and thorough analysis of how these societies reacted to reform and change. "The State and the Subaltern" offers a fresh perspective on the accommodation an.
Note:
Written "as a result of a workshop on 'The Triumphs and Travails of Authoritarian Modernization in Turkey and Iran: Twentieth-Century History From Below', which was organized at the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in autumn 2003"--Page xvi
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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