History of Modernizing Turkey (Updated Edition)

This book by Erik Jan Zürcher, which treats Turkish history since the 1800s as a unique process of modernization, is used as a textbook in major universities in Europe and the USA. Prof. Zürcher, who previously conducted important research on the founding period of the Republic of Turkey, is a faculty member at the universities of Amsterdam and Nijmegen, and also served as the head of the "Turkey Section of the International Institute of Social History." In this book, he addresses all dimensions of the modernization problem in Turkey with a depth of insight, profound diagnoses, and a simple narrative that would be unexpected from a textbook. In this revised new edition of this exemplary work, you will encounter different information and a fresh approach presented by a competent historian.

The work, with its comprehensive and profound, straightforward narrative, focuses not only on political events but also on social and economic history and intellectual movements.

- William Hale, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

This excellent work, notable for its superb writing, offers a unique perspective in the field of Turkish studies. This book, whose treatment of the period will lead to lively discussions, also reveals the serious need to correct the trends that have long dominated Turkish historiography.

- Donald Quataert, Binghamton University, State University of New York