The Shortest History of Turkey
$23.75
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2025
Summary
The world-changing story of Turkey - a country caught between two worlds
This brilliant distillation traces Turkey’s long and complicated history from the rise and decline of the Ottoman Empire - the most enduring, and perhaps the most important, Islamic empire in history - to the emergence of the modern Turkish Republic in the early twentieth century and the populist, authoritarian leadership of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan today.
Over more than nine centuries of change, Tu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781760644659 |
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| ISBN-10: | 176064465X |
| Author: | Benjamin Fortna |
| Publisher: | Black Inc. |
| Imprint: | Black Inc. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 227g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 128mm x 196mm |
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Benjamin Fortna
Benjamin C. Fortna is a professor of history and director of the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Arizona. He has published numerous books on the Ottoman Empire, the early Turkish Republic, and modern Turkey. He has appeared on the BBC programs Who Do You Think You Are? and The Ottomans: Europe’s Muslim Emperors.
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