Turkey by Norman Stone
A survey of Turkey's relations with its immediate neighbours and the wider world from the 11th century to the present day. It deftly conducts the reader through this story, from the arrival of the Seljuks in Anatolia in the eleventh century to the modern republic applying for EU membership in the twenty-first.
'Constantly exhilarating …However many histories of Turkey you have read, you will never have read one as incisive, combative and sure-footed as this one' - Cornucopia
'Arresting … Stone’s Turkey breaks the popular mould and introduces its readers to a place beyond their presumptions' - Sunday Times
'Absolutely splendid … pithy, straightforward, superbly argued' - Country Life
'A fanfare for modern Turkey and a vivid, provocative, often funny, always insightful account of how it came about. Stone pulls together his accomplishments as a philoturk, a philologist, controversialist and narrative historian to sweep his readers along a short crash course in Turkish origins, their history and current challenges. If you really don’t know why a portrait of Ataturk hangs in almost every shop in Turkey, read this book' - Guardian
'Entertaining, insightful … Packing ten centuries into under 200 pages isn’t easy, but this book does it with aplomb' - History Revealed
'Arresting … Stone’s Turkey breaks the popular mould and introduces its readers to a place beyond their presumptions' - Sunday Times
'Absolutely splendid … pithy, straightforward, superbly argued' - Country Life
'A fanfare for modern Turkey and a vivid, provocative, often funny, always insightful account of how it came about. Stone pulls together his accomplishments as a philoturk, a philologist, controversialist and narrative historian to sweep his readers along a short crash course in Turkish origins, their history and current challenges. If you really don’t know why a portrait of Ataturk hangs in almost every shop in Turkey, read this book' - Guardian
'Entertaining, insightful … Packing ten centuries into under 200 pages isn’t easy, but this book does it with aplomb' - History Revealed
Norman Stone is Director of the Turkish-Russian Centre at Bilkent University, Ankara. He was formerly Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford and also taught for many years at Cambridge University. Between 1987 and 1992 Stone worked as Margaret Thatcher’s Foreign Policiy Advisor. Norman Stone now lives in Oxford and Istanbul.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780500290385 |
| ISBN 10 | 0500290385 |
| Title | Turkey |
| Author | Norman Stone |
| Series | Short History Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Year published | 2012-02-06 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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