Tento autor je profesorem pozdní osmanské historie na Princeton University, kde vyučuje od roku 2005. Jeho výzkum se zaměřuje na myšlenky a aktivity Abdullaha Cevdeta, klíčové postavy v Hnutí za mladoturky. S hlubokým porozuměním pro politické a intelektuální proudy pozdní osmanské éry tato práce zkoumá formování moderní Turecké republiky.
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