Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the founding of
the Republic in 1923 under the rule of Atatürk and his Republican
People's Party, Turkey embarked on extensive social, economic,
cultural and administrative modernization programs which would lay
the foundations for modern day Turkey. The Power of the People
shows that the ordinary people shaped the social and political
change of Turkey as much as Atatürk's strong spurt of
modernization. Adopting a broader conception of politics, focusing
on daily interactions between the state and society and using
untapped archival sources, Murat Metinsoy reveals how rural and
urban people coped with the state policies, local oppression,
exploitation, and adverse conditions wrought by the Great
Depression through diverse everyday survival and resistance
strategies. Showing how the people's daily practices and beliefs
survived and outweighed the modernizing elite's projects, this book
gives new insights into the social and historical origins of
Turkey's backslide to conservative and Islamist politics,
demonstrating that the making of modern Turkey was an outcome of
intersection between the modernization and the people's responses
to it.
General
Imprint: |
Cambridge UniversityPress
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
June 2023 |
Authors: |
Murat Metinsoy
|
Pages: |
417 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-00-901214-0 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-00-901214-2 |
Barcode: |
9781009012140 |
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