Politics and the peasantry in post-war Turkey : social history, culture and modernization / Sinan Yildirmaz.

Author
Yildirmaz, Sinan [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2017.
  • ©2017
Description
x, 294 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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    "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."-- Provided by publisher.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-290) and index.
    Contents
    • List of Tables and Figures, p.viii
    • Acknowledgments, p.ix
    • Introduction, p.1
    • 1. Peasants in Theory and the Development of Rural Sociology in Turkey, p.14
    • 2. Peasants Maving Towards Cities: the Transformatian of the Rural Structure, Rural Migratian and the Gecekondu, p.51
    • 3. The Peasantry as an Active Component of Politics, p.116
    • 4. The Making of the "Village Literature", p.201
    • Conclusion, p.234
    • Notes, p.243
    • Bibliography, p.277
    • Index, p.291.
    ISBN
    • 9781780761138 ((hardback))
    • 1780761139 ((hardback))
    OCLC
    965716960
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