The Remaking of Republican Turkey: Memory and Modernity since the Fall of the Ottoman Empire

The Remaking of Republican Turkey: Memory and Modernity since the Fall of the Ottoman Empire
ISBN-10
1108976654
ISBN-13
9781108976657
Category
History
Language
English
Published
2021-06-24
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Author
Nicholas Danforth

Description

Between 1945 and 1960, the birth of a multi-party democracy and NATO membership radically transformed Turkey's foreign relations and domestic politics. As Turkish politicians, intellectuals and voters rethought their country's relationship with its past and its future to facilitate democratization, a new alliance with the United States was formed. In this book, Nicholas L. Danforth demonstrates how these transformations helped consolidate a consensus on the nature of Turkish modernity that continues to shape current political and cultural debates. He reveals the surprisingly nuanced and often paradoxical ways that both secular modernizers and their Islamist critics deployed Turkey's famous clichés about East and West, as well as tradition and modernity, to advance their agendas. By drawing on a diverse array of published and archival sources, Danforth offers a tour de force exploration of the relationship between democracy, diplomacy, modernity, Westernization, Ottoman historiography and religion in mid-century Turkey.

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