Turkey : a modern history /
Erik J. Zúcher
- 3rd. edition.
- London, New York: I. B. Tauris & Co Ltd., 2010
- xiii, 418 p. : maps
Includes biographical notes of some important figures in Ottoman and Turkish history.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Ottoman empire at the end of the eighteenth century -- Between tradition and innovation: Sultan Selim III and the 'New Order', 1789-1807 -- The early years of Sultan Mahmut II: the centre tries ton regain control -- The later years of Sultan Mahmut II: the start of the reforms -- The era of the Tanzimat, 1839-71 -- The crisis of 1873-78 and its aftermath -- Reactionary despotism or culmination or the reforms? The reign of Sultan Abdülhamit II -- The second constitutional period, 1908-18 -- The struggle of Independence -- The emergence of the One-Party state, 1923-27 -- The Kemalist One-Party state, 1925-45 -- The transition to democracy, 1945-50 -- The rule of the democratic party -- The second turkish republic -- The third republic: Turkey since 1980.