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Turkey :A Short History

3.31 ( 569 Ratings by Goodreads)
Turkey

Turkey :A Short History

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3.31 (569 Ratings by Goodreads)
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From the eminent historian Norman Stone, who has lived and worked in the country since 1997, comes this concise survey of Turkey’s relations with its immediate neighbours and the wider world from the 11th century to the present day. Stone deftly conducts the reader through this story, from the arrival of the Seljuks in Anatolia in the eleventh century to today’s thriving republic. It is an historical account of epic proportions, featuring rapacious leaders such as Genghis Khan and Tamerlane through the glories of Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent to Kemal Atatürk, the reforming genius and founder of modern Turkey. At its height, the Ottoman Empire was a superpower that brought Islam to the gates of Vienna. Stone examines the reasons for the empire’s long decline and shows how it gave birth to the modern Turkish republic, where east and west, religion and secularism, tradition and modernity still form vibrant elements of national identity. Norman Stone brilliantly draws out the larger themes of Turkey’s history, resulting in a book that is a masterly exposition of the historian’s craft.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780500292990
ISBN10 050029299X
Number Of Pages 208
Item Weight 200 g
Publisher / Reseller Thames & Hudson Ltd
Format paperback
Edition Revised Edition
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'A fanfare for modern Turkey and a vivid, provocative, often funny, always insightful account of how it came about … If you really don’t know why a portrait of Ataturk hangs in almost every shop in Turkey, read this book' - Guardian
'Arresting … Stone’s Turkey breaks the popular mould and introduces its readers to a place beyond their presumptions' - Sunday Times
'Absolutely splendid … pithy, straightforward, superbly argued' - Country Life
'Constantly exhilarating …. However many histories of Turkey you have read, you will never have read one as incisive, combative and sure-footed as this one' - Cornucopia

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Author's Bio

Norman Stone is Director of the Turkish-Russian Centre at Bilkent University, Ankara. He was formerly Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford and also taught for many years at Cambridge University. Between 1987 and 1992 Stone worked as Margaret Thatcher’s Foreign Policiy Advisor. Norman Stone now lives in Oxford and Istanbul.

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