Tento autor je profesorom neskoršej osmanskej histórie na Princetonskej univerzite, kde pôsobí od roku 2005. Jeho výskum sa zameriava na myšlienky a aktivity Abdullaha Cevdeta, kľúčovej postavy v Hnutí mladoturkov. S hlbokým porozumením pre politické a intelektuálne prúdy neskoršej osmanskej éry sa toto dielo zaoberá formovaním moderného Turecka.
When Mustafa Kemal Ataturk became the first president of Turkey in 1923, he set about transforming his country into a secular republic where nationalism sanctified by science. This book provides a look at the intellectual life of the Turkish Republic's founder.
At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire straddled three continents and encompassed extraordinary ethnic and cultural diversity among the estimated thirty million people living within its borders. This title offers a history of the late empire between 1789 and 1918, which were... číst celé