Table of Contents

Chronology; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction Resat Kasaba; Part I. Ottoman Background and Transition: 2. The Tanzimat Carter Findley; 3. The reign of Abdülhamid II Benjamin Fortna; 4. The second constitutional period Sükrü Hanioglu; 5. The struggle for independence Hasan Kayali; 6. Atatürk Andrew Mango; Part II. Republic of Turkey: 7. migration and Turkey: the dynamics of state, society and politics Kemal Kirisci; 8. The migration story of Turks in Germany: from the beginning to the end Levent Soysal; 9. Politics and political parties in Republican Turkey Feroz Ahmad; 10. Economic change in twentieth century Turkey: is the glass more than half full? Sevket Pamuk; 11. Ideology, context, and interest: the Turkish military Ümit Cizre; 12. Kurds and the Turkish State Hamit Bozarslan; 13. Islam and politics in contemporary Turkey Jenny White; 14. Sufism and Islamic groups in contemporary Turkey Ahmet Yükleyen; 15. Contestation and collaboration: women's struggles for empowerment in Turkey Yesim Arat; 16. Art and architecture In Modern Turkey: the Republican period Sibel Bozdogan; 17. The novel in Turkish: narrative tradition to Nobel prize Erdag Göknar; 18. A brief history of modern Istanbul Çaglar Keyder; Bibliography.

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Volume 4 of The Cambridge History of Turkey traces the modernization of Turkey.

About the Author

Resat Kasaba is Professor of International Studies at the University of Washington and the Director of the International Studies Center in the Jackson School. He is the author of The Ottoman Empire and the World Economy and the editor of Cities in the World Economy.

Reviews

"A team of some of the most distinguished scholars of modern Turkey have come together to explore Turkish modernization....Concludes with chapters on art and architecture, literature, and a brief history of Istanbul. Supplementary material in this volume include: a chronology, illustrations and maps, a select bibliography, and an index."
--American Reference Books Annual

"Students, both undergraduate and graduate, professors, teachers, doctoral candidates, and the general public have come to rely on Cambridge Histories as the best, most reliable, up-to-date surveys of regional or national histories. In that sense, the latest Cambridge History of Turkey, edited by Resat Kasaba with contributions from Turkish and Anglo-American scholars, does not disappoint.... The volume really represents a large step forward in the historical scholarship on modern Turkey." - World History Bulletin