Politics and the Peasantry in Post-War Turkey: Social History, Culture and Modernization
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Politics and the Peasantry in Post-War Turkey: Social History, Culture and Modernization
By (Author) Sinan Yildirmaz
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
I.B. Tauris
30th June 2016
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Political structure and processes
History and Archaeology
Social groups: religious groups and communities
Social and cultural history
National liberation and independence
Political science and theory
Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action
Social classes
Sociology
956.1024
Physical Properties
Hardback
304
Width 142mm, Height 218mm, Spine 28mm
510g
Description
When the Ottoman Empire collapsed following the First World War, the feudal system which had survived untouched in much of Anatolia began to change. Kemal Ataturk's task of building a nation 'from the people up' meant that the peasantry, by far Turkey's largest ethnographic group, became an important symbol of social cohesion. Here, Sinan Yildirmaz analyses the history of modern Turkey through the material culture of this peasantry - their speeches, social club documents, art and diaries - and reveals a rich social and political life which flowered after the Second World War. Politics and the Peasantry in Post-War Turkey is the first history to show how the changing peasantry laid the foundations for the modern Turkish state, and will be essential reading for students and scholars of the Ottoman Empire and of the History of Modern Turkey.
Author Bio
Sinan Yildirmaz is Assistant Professor of History at Istanbul University and an expert on the cultural history of Modern Turkey.
