Este autor es profesor de historia del Imperio Otomano tardío en la Universidad de Princeton desde 2005. Su trabajo académico profundiza en los pensamientos y actividades de Abdullah Cevdet, una figura clave en el movimiento de los Jóvenes Turcos. Con una profunda comprensión de las corrientes políticas e intelectuales de la era otomana tardía, su escritura ilumina el período formativo de la moderna República Turca.
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