Turkey
A Short History
$19.98
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2017
Summary
From the eminent historian Norman Stone, who has lived and worked in the country since 1997, comes this concise survey of Turkey’s relations with its immediate neighbours and the wider world from the 11th century to the present day. Stone deftly conducts the reader through this story, from the arrival of the Seljuks in Anatolia in the eleventh century to today’s thriving republic.
It is an historical account of epic proportions, featuring rapacious leaders such as Genghis Khan and Tam…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780500292990 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 050029299X |
| Author: | Norman Stone |
| Publisher: | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Imprint: | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2017 |
| Weight: | 222g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 131mm x 199mm |
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Critics Review
‘A fanfare for modern Turkey and a vivid, provocative, often funny, always insightful account of how it came about … If you really don’t know why a portrait of Ataturk hangs in almost every shop in Turkey, read this book’ - Guardian
‘Arresting … Stone’s Turkey breaks the popular mould and introduces its readers to a place beyond their presumptions’ - Sunday Times
‘Absolutely splendid … pithy, straightforward, superbly argued’ - Country Life
‘Constantly exhilarating …. However many histories of Turkey you have read, you will never have read one as incisive, combative and sure-footed as this one’ - Cornucopia
Norman Stone
Norman Stone is Director of the Turkish-Russian Centre at Bilkent University, Ankara. He was formerly Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford and also taught for many years at Cambridge University. Between 1987 and 1992 Stone worked as Margaret Thatcher’s Foreign Policy Advisor. Norman Stone now lives in Oxford and Istanbul.
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