When the Ottoman Empire collapsed following the First World War,
the feudal system which had survived untouched in much of Anatolia
began to change. Kemal Ataturk's task of building a nation 'from
the people up' meant that the peasantry, by far Turkey's largest
ethnographic group, became an important symbol of social cohesion.
Here, Sinan Yildirmaz analyses the history of modern Turkey through
the material culture of this peasantry - their speeches, social
club documents, art and diaries - and reveals a rich social and
political life which flowered after the Second World War. Politics
and the Peasantry in Post-War Turkey is the first history to show
how the changing peasantry laid the foundations for the modern
Turkish state, and will be essential reading for students and
scholars of the Ottoman Empire and of the History of Modern Turkey.
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