Table of Contents

1 Introduction2 Modernity, Enlightenment, Westernization3 Culture, Identity, Difference4 Past, Memory, History5 Space, Territory, Homeland6 Minorities and the Politics of Homogenization7 Conclusion

About the Author

UMUT OZKIRIMLI is Associate Professor of Politics and the Director of the Center for Turkish-Greek Studies at Istanbul Bilgi University. His previous publications include Theories of Nationalism: A Critical Introduction (2000).SPYROS A. SOFOS is Senior Research Fellow in European and International Studies at the European Research Centre, Kingston University, London. His publications include Nation and Identity in Contemporary Europe and Islam in Europe: Public Spaces and Networks, both of which he co-authored.

Reviews

'This is a most impressive text, drawing together, and in a very fluent and integrated way, the histories and debates on nationalism in Greece and Turkey. ... I have never seen a comparative study of this kind, let alone one that draws on material in both languages to great effect. ... It is also a remarkable example, too rare in this world, of collaboration by intellectuals from two rival states and also, given the sensibilities involved, a most courageous and valiant intervention.'
*Professor Fred Halliday, London School of Economics*

'This is not the first book to look at Greek and Turkish nationalisms in tandem, but it has the great advantage over its predecessors of tackling its subject on a thematic rather than country by country basis, avoiding the usual disjointed account. It is critical and objective, in a field in which, until recently, most single-country accounts have uncritically accepted nationalist orthodoxies.'
*Middle East Journal*