Nation-Building in Modern Turkey: The 'People's Houses', the State and the Citizen

by Alexandros Lamprou

Book Overview

From 1924 to 1946 the Republic of Turkey was in effect ruled as an authoritarian single-party regime. During these years the state embarked upon an extensive reform programme of modernisation and nation-building. Alexandros Lamprou here offers an alternative understanding of social change and state-society relations in Turkey, shifting the focus from the state as the prime instigator of change to the population's participation in the process of reform...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1788313941
• ISBN13: 9781788313940
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"