Turkey: A Short History

Turkey: A Short History

"Arresting â€¦ Stoneâ€™s Turkey breaks the popular mould and introduces its readers to a place beyond their presumptions" â€”The Sunday Times
In Turkey: A Short History the celebrated historian Norman Stone deftly conducts the reader through the fascinating and complex story of Turkeyâ€™s past, from the arrival of the Seljuks in Anatolia in the eleventh century to the modern republic applying for EU membership in the twenty-first. It is an account of epic proportions, featuring rapacious leaders such as Genghis Khan and Tamerlane, the glories of Sultan SÃ¼leyman the Magnificent, and Kemal AtatÃ¼rk, the reforming genius and founder of modern Turkey.

For six hundred years Turkey was at the heart of the Ottoman Empire, a superpower that brought Islam to the gates of Vienna and stretched to North Africa, the Persian Gulf, and the river Volga. Stone examines the reasons for the astonishing rise and the long decline of this world empire and how for its last hundred years it became the center of the Eastern Question, as the Great Powers argued over a regime in its death throes. Then, as now, the position of Turkeyâ€”a country balanced between two continentsâ€”provoked passionate debate. Stone concludes the book with a trenchant examination of the Turkish republic created in the aftermath of the First World War, where East and West, religion and secularism, and tradition and modernization are vibrant and sometimes conflicting elements of national identity. 11 illustrations

Country	USA
Author	Norman Stone
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Stone, Norman
EAN	9780500290385
Edition	1
ISBN	0500290385
Label	Thames & Hudson
Manufacturer	Thames & Hudson
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	192
PublicationDate	2014-06-17
Publisher	Thames & Hudson
Studio	Thames & Hudson
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Turkey: A Short History

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