Remaking Turkey: Globalization, Alternative Modernities, and Democracies

Book Overview

In recent years there has been an upsurge of interest in Turkey's ability to create a secular, constitutional democracy within a predominantly Muslim population.Remaking Turkey provides a comprehensive and detailed account of how Turkey has achieved the possiblity of modernity and democracy in a Muslim social setting, as well as the important problems and challenges confronting this achievement.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739118153
• ISBN13: 9780739118153
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"