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Building Modern Turkey : State, Space, and Ideology in the Early Republic.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Culture Politics and the Built Environment SeriesPublisher: PIttsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (345 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822981190
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Building Modern TurkeyDDC classification:
  • 720.1/03
LOC classification:
  • NA1368
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Names, Pronunciation, and Sources -- Introduction: Ambivalences and Anxieties -- Part I. Forging a New Identity -- Chapter 1. Political Capital -- Chapter 2. Theaters of Diplomacy -- Part II. Erasures in the Land -- Chapter 3. Dismantling the Landscapes of Islam -- Chapter 4. Of Forgotten People and Forgotten Places -- Part III. An Imaginable Community -- Chapter 5. Nationalizing Space -- Chapter 6. Manufacturing Turkish Citizens -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Zeynep Kezer offers a critical account of how the built environment mediated Turkey's transition from a pluralistic (multiethnic and multireligious) empire into a modern, homogenized nation-state following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Names, Pronunciation, and Sources -- Introduction: Ambivalences and Anxieties -- Part I. Forging a New Identity -- Chapter 1. Political Capital -- Chapter 2. Theaters of Diplomacy -- Part II. Erasures in the Land -- Chapter 3. Dismantling the Landscapes of Islam -- Chapter 4. Of Forgotten People and Forgotten Places -- Part III. An Imaginable Community -- Chapter 5. Nationalizing Space -- Chapter 6. Manufacturing Turkish Citizens -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Zeynep Kezer offers a critical account of how the built environment mediated Turkey's transition from a pluralistic (multiethnic and multireligious) empire into a modern, homogenized nation-state following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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