From the abode of Islam to the Turkish vatan : the making of a national homeland in Turkey /
How does a people move from tribal and religiously based understandings of society to a concept of the modern nation-state? This book examines the complex and pivotal case of Turkey. Tracing the shifting valences of vatan (Arabic for "birthplace" or "homeland") from the Ottoman p...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©2012. |
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Table of Contents:
- Searching for a new legitimacy : Ottoman patriotism and imperial vatan
- From imperial to national vatan
- From geography to vatan
- Vatan and Turkey's foreign policy.