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

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. Through the study of the 'People's Houses', the community centres opened and operated by the Republican People's Party in most cities and towns of Turkey, and using previously unpublished archival material, Lamprou analyses how ordinary people experienced, negotiated and resisted the reforms in the 1930s and 1940s and how this process contributed to the shaping of social identities. This book will be essential reading for students and scholars of nation-building, socio-cultural change and state-society relations in modern Turkey.

General

Imprint:	I.B. Tauris
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2015
Authors:	Alexandros Lamprou
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-1-78076-876-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > General Books > History > European history > General Promotions
LSN:	1-78076-876-1
Barcode:	9781780768762

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