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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
OUP Oxford,
2012.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (334 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780191619083 0191619086 1280594683 9781280594687 9780199655229 0199655227 9786613624512 6613624519 |