Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
- 224bladzijden
- 8 uur lezen
Includes bibliographical references and index. číst celé
Ryan Gingeras Boeken
Deze auteur duikt in de complexiteit van de moderne geschiedenis, met de nadruk op specifieke thema's. Zijn werk wordt gekenmerkt door nauwgezet onderzoek en een analytische benadering om het verleden te begrijpen. Door middel van zijn geschriften probeert hij belangrijke gebeurtenissen en hun impact op het heden te belichten. Lezers zullen de diepgang van zijn wetenschap en de helderheid van zijn argumenten waarderen.
The story of the fall of the Ottoman Empire offers a new way of understanding the twentieth century "Brings a welcome human lens to the story of the empire's disintegration.' Washington Post 'A tour de force of accessible scholarship' The Guardian 'Impressive ... It is a complicated story that still reverberates, and Gingeras narrates it with lucid authority' New Statesman The Ottoman Empire had been one of the major facts in European history since the Middle Ages. Stretching from the Adriatic to the Indian Ocean, the Empire was both a great political entity and a religious one, with the Sultan, as Caliph, the successor to Mohammed. Yet the Empire's fateful decision to support Germany and Austria-Hungary in 1914 doomed it to disaster, breaking it up into a series of European colonies and what emerged as an independent Saudi Arabia. Ryan Gingeras's superb new book explains how these epochal events came about and shows how much we still live in the shadow of decisions taken so long ago. Would all of the Empire fall to marauding Allied armies, or could something be saved? In such an ethnically and religiously entangled region, what would be the price paid to create a cohesive and independent new state? The story of the creation of modern Turkey is an extraordinary, bitter epic, brilliantly told here.