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The Making of Modern Turkey : Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913-1950 /

The eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire used to be a multi-ethnic region where Armenians, Kurds, Syriacs, Turks, and Arabs lived together in the same villages and cities. The disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and rise of the nation state violently altered this situation. Nationalist elites in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Üngör, Ugur Ümit
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : OUP Oxford, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire used to be a multi-ethnic region where Armenians, Kurds, Syriacs, Turks, and Arabs lived together in the same villages and cities. The disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and rise of the nation state violently altered this situation. Nationalist elites intervened in heterogeneous populations they identified as objects of knowledge, management, and change. These often violent processes of state formation destroyed historical regions andemptied multicultural cities, clearing the way for modern nation states. The Making of Modern Turkey highlights how.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (334 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780191619083
0191619086
1280594683
9781280594687
9780199655229
0199655227
9786613624512
6613624519