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The writing of modern Turkey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Nicholas Danforth
Nicholas Danforth*
Affiliation:
History, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, Email: nick.danforth@gmail.com
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Abstract

In its title, Uğrur Ümit Üngör's Making of Modern Turkey (2011) offers an elegant indication of how much has changed in the academic literature on Turkey since Bernard Lewis's 1961 Emergence of Modern Turkey. Lewis believed modern Turkey emerged; Üngör reminds us it was made. The cover pictures tell the rest of the story: where my copy of Lewis's book shows a bustling street scene, Üngör's boldly offers the ruins of an abandoned Armenian church. If it is an exaggeration to say that modern Turkey no longer represents the triumph of progress, but instead a systematic act of destruction, it is increasingly clear that younger historians, both Turkish and non-Turkish, have shifted their focus from what was gained with the advent of the republic to what was lost.

Type
Review Essay
Information
Nationalities Papers , Volume 41 , Issue 6 , November 2013 , pp. 1136 - 1146
Copyright
Copyright © 2013 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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