Research Catalog

Title

Eternal dawn : Turkey in the age of Atatürk / Ryan Gingeras.

Author

Gingeras, Ryan

Publication

Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.

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Details

Description

xix, 409 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps; 24 cm

Summary

Amid the tensions and uncertainties that plagued the globe before the Second World War, the Republic of Turkey appeared to many as a unique and constructive model for how a state was to be reformed and governed in the modern era. For many interwar observers, Turkey was a country that seemed to have radically transformed itself into a nation that was united, strong, and progressive, one that was unburdened by its past. A general consensus held that Turkey's founding president, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, was the chief architect and engineer of this feat, a belief that placed him among the greatest reforming statesmen in world history. This general perception of Ataturk and his revolutionary rule has largely endured to this day.0As a study grounded in largely untapped archival and scholarly sources, Eternal Dawn presents a definitive look inside the development and evolution of Ataturk's Turkey. Rather than presenting the country's founding and transformation as an extension of Mustafa Kemal's life and achievements, scholar Ryan Gingeras presents Turkey's early years as the culmination of a variety of social and political forces dating back to the late Ottoman Empire. Eternal Dawn presses beyond the reigning mythology that still envelops this period and challenges many of the standing assumptions about the limits, successes, and consequences of the reforms that comprised Mustafa Kemal's revolution. Through a detailed survey of social and political conditions that defined life in the capital as well as Turkey's diverse provinces, Gingeras lays bare many of the harsh realities and bitter legacies incurred as a result of the republic's establishment and transformation. Ataturk's revolution, upon final analysis, destroyed as much as it built, and established precedents that both strengthen and torment the country to this day.

Subject

• Atatürk, Kemal, 1881-1938
• 1918-1960
• Politics and government
• Turkey > Politics and government > 1918-1960
• Turkey

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 20-1335

ISBN

• 0198791216
• 9780198791218

OCLC

1097672864

Author

Gingeras, Ryan, author.

Title

Eternal dawn : Turkey in the age of Atatürk / Ryan Gingeras.

Publisher

Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1918-1960

Research Call Number

JFE 20-1335