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Atatürk : An Intellectual Biography /
When Mustafa Kemal Atatürk became the first president of Turkey in 1923, he set about transforming his country into a secular republic where nationalism sanctified by science--and by the personality cult Atatürk created around himself--would reign supreme as the new religion. This book provides th...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2017.
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| Edition: | Revised edition. |
| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | When Mustafa Kemal Atatürk became the first president of Turkey in 1923, he set about transforming his country into a secular republic where nationalism sanctified by science--and by the personality cult Atatürk created around himself--would reign supreme as the new religion. This book provides the first in-depth look at the intellectual life of the Turkish Republic's founder. In doing so, it frames him within the historical context of the turbulent age in which he lived, and explores the uneasy transition from the late Ottoman imperial order to the modern Turkish state through his life and i. |
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| Item Description: | New preface by the author, 2017. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781400885572 |