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

• Autore: Üngör Ugur Ümit
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : OUP Oxford, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (334 p.)
• Disciplina: 956.102
• Soggetto topico: Turkey -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century; Turkey -- History -- 1918-1960; Turkey -- History -- Mehmed V, 1909-1918; Turkey -- Politics and government -- 1909-1918; Turkey -- Politics and government -- 1918-1960; Regions & Countries - Europe; History & Archaeology; Balkan Peninsula
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; List of Maps; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Nationalism and Population Politics in the Late Ottoman Empire; An introduction to Diyarbekir; The advent of nationalism; The discovery of society and population policies; Violence, victimization, and vengeance; Discussion; 2. Genocide of Christians, 1915-16; War and persecution; 'Burn, destroy, kill': the persecution becomes genocidal; Centre and periphery: widening and narrowing scopes of persecution; Discussion; 3. Deportations of Kurds, 1916-34; 1916: phase one ; 1925: phase two1934: phase three; Discussion; 4. Culture and Education in the Eastern Provinces; The Young Turk cultural revolution; The nation in the province: culture and education in Diyarbekir; The boarding school for Kurdish girls; Discussion; 5. The Calm after the Storm: The Politics of Memory; Silencing the violence: the organization of oblivion; Damnatio memoriae: destruction and construction of memory; Memory politics in Diyarbekir; Toponymical changes; Discussion; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The Making of Modern Turkey
• ISBN: 0-19-164076-X; 1-280-59468-3; 9786613624512; 0-19-161908-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812810403321
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