Author: Resat Kasaba
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: turkey, world, modern, volume, cambridge, history
Number of Pages: 600
Published: 2008-06-02
List price: $178.99
ISBN-10: 0521620961
ISBN-13: 9780521620963

Turkey’s modern history has been shaped by its society and its institutions. In this fourth volume of The Cambridge History of Turkey a team of some of the most distinguished scholars of modern Turkey have come together to explore the interaction between these two aspects of Turkish modernization. The volume begins in the nineteenth century and traces the historical background through the reforms of the late Ottoman Empire, the period of the Young Turks, the War of Independence and the founding of the Ataturk’s Republic. Thereafter, the volume focuses on the Republican period to co

Author: Brian Lovett
Publisher: Krause Publications
Keywords: turkey, american, hunting, allure, legacy, hunters, lore
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2003-11
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 0873495780
ISBN-13: 9780873495783

Featuring classic articles from Turkey & Turkey Hunting magazine, this beautifully illustrated examination of the grandest game bird is designed to help experienced turkey hunters better appreciate their sport. Detailed scientific information dissects the longbeard, providing insight into the amazing recovery and incredible boom of modern turkey populations. Turkey hunting is addictive and hunters are passionate about their sport. Explore the trials and tribulations of this scintillating sport in this coffee-table masterpiece that uncovers its ultimate reward--the many lasting friendshi

Authors:Stephen J. Flanagan, Samuel Brannen,
Publisher: Center for Strategic and International Studies
Keywords: turkey, relations, implications, dynamics, shifting
Number of Pages: 36
Published: 2008-06-02
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0892065362
ISBN-13: 9780892065363

For more than half a century, a sound relationship with Turkey has been central to U.S. interests in Eurasia and the Middle East and to creating new strategic opportunities for the United States and its NATO allies. Yet, fundamental changes in that country and neighborhood have altered how Turks view and pursue their interests. The governing Justice and Development Party (AKP), supported by a new middle class from the Anatolian heartland, has eclipsed traditional Kemalist parties. However, the AKP’s moves to reduce some of the strictures of state-enforced secularism have raised fears of

Authors:Stephen J. Flanagan, Samuel J. Brannen,
Publisher: Center for Strategic and International Studies
Keywords: turkey, relations, choices, dynamics, evolving, strategic
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2009-04-15
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0892065761
ISBN-13: 9780892065769

Relations between the United States and Turkey stand at a critical juncture. Turkey is a key ally in the advancement of U.S. interests vis-a-vis the Middle East, Eurasia, and global energy diversification. Turkey still sees the United States as its closest ally and wants to be a partner in advancing mutual interests, particularly in its immediate environs. This confluence of interests gives revitalization of bilateral ties greater urgency. Yet the relationship remains somewhat strained and lacks the strategic character it once enjoyed. The two governments have made steady progress during the p

Authors:Thalia Dragonas, Faruk Birtek,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: turkey, greece, historical, studies, social, nation, citizenship, state
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2005-01-07
List price: $160.00
ISBN-10: 0415347831
ISBN-13: 9780415347839

Citizenship and the Nation State in Greece and Turkey brings together papers on a transdisciplinary dialogue on nation formation in Greece and Turkey as successor states of the Ottoman Empire, and on aspects of civil society in the two countries.The volume is divided into two parts: ’Empire and Nation-State’ and ’Nation and Civil Society’ and covers issues such as Turkish and Greek nationalism, the formation of the Greek State, the impact of the Greek War of Independence in transforming the Ottoman Empire, civil society in Greece during the post-World War II period, the

Author: John E. Phillips
Publisher: Larsen Outdoor Publishing
Keywords: hunting, turkey, book, library, success, tactics, secrets, masters, improve
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1991-12-01
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0936513187
ISBN-13: 9780936513188

Authors:Stanford J. Shaw, Ezel Kural Shaw,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: modern, turkey, revolution, republic, rise, reform, volume, ottoman, history, empire
Number of Pages: 548
Published: 1977-05-27
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 0521291666
ISBN-13: 9780521291668

Reform, Revolution and Republic: The Rise of Modern Turkey, 1808-1975 is the second book of the two-volume History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey. It discusses the modernization of the Ottoman Empire during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the spread of nationalism among its subject peoples, and the revolutionary changes in Ottoman institutions and society that led to the Empire’s demise and the rise of the democratic Republic of Turkey. Based on extensive research in the Ottoman archives as well as Western sources, this volume analyzes the external pressures, refor