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A Social and Political History
Suraiya Faroqhi, Ibn Haldun University, Turkey In this book, the agency of women from a diverse range of class, religious, ethnic, and geographic backgrounds is, for the first time, woven into the social and political history of the Ottoman Empire, from the early-modern period to its dissolution in 1918. Suraiya Faroqhi charts the history of elite and non elite women in thematic chapters concentrating on urban and non-urban women, family life, work, slavery, education and survival in times of war. In the process it introduces readers to the key sources, primary and secondary, necessary to reconstruct and understand the ways that females navigated social, legal and economic constraints.
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 288 pages • 15 bw illus PB 9780755638260 • £21�99 / $29�95 • HB 9780755638253 • £65�00 / $90�00 ePub 9780755638284 • £19�79 / $27�47 ePdf 9780755638277 • £19�79 / $27�47 I�B� Tauris
The Politics of Naming the Armenian Genocide
Language, History and ‘Medz Yeghern’
Vartan Matiossian
This book explores the genealogy of the concept of ‘Medz Yeghern’ (‘Great Crime’), the Armenian term for the mass murder and ethnic cleansing of the Armenian ethno-religious group in the Ottoman Empire between the years 1915-1923. Ascribing the right definition to the crime has been a source of contention and controversy in international politics. Vartan Matiossian here draws upon extensive research based on Armenian sources, as well as other European languages in order to trace the development of the concepts pertaining to mass killing and genocide of Armenians from the ancient to the modern periods. The book is an insightful exploration of the politics of naming a catastrophic historical event, and the competitive nature of national collective memories.
UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 296 pages PB 9780755641123 • £19�99 / $26�95 Previously published in HB 9780755641086 ePub 9780755641109 • £81�00 / $112�65 ePdf 9780755641093 • £81�00 / $112�65 Series: Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World • I�B� Tauris
Political Violence in Turkey, 1975-1980
The State at Stake
Benjamin Gourisse, Sciences Po Toulouse, France The 1970’s are commonly viewed as a time of weakness for the republican Turkish state in the face of a violent contest between far-right and far-left organisations. In this book, Benjamin Gourisse challenges these assumptions by a detailed study of the role of the state and its institutions in the conflict, revealing that, far from marginal, the state was central to the contest as a means for groups to accumulate power. He shows that the centrally organized MHP and its satellites was significantly more advantaged than leftist forces, and that it accumulated power by using the threat of street violence to force successive governments into cooperation, systematically placing members in the institutions of state which coordinated to challenge the left’s sporadic centres of local power.
UK March 2023 • US March 2023 • 272 pages HB 9780755646470 • £85�00 / $115�00 ePub 9780755646456 • £76�50 / $105�78 ePdf 9780755646463 • £76�50 / $105�78 Series: Contemporary Turkey • I�B� Tauris World English The Relationship Between State and Big Business
Devrim Yavuz
This book explores the factors that compelled capitalists in Turkey to adopt a more pro-democratic ideology by examining a leading Turkish business lobby (TÜSIAD) which has been pushing for democratic reform since the 1990s, despite representing some of the largest corporation owners in Turkey and having supported the state’s authoritarian tendencies in the past such as the military coup of 1980. Drawing on 70 interviews with members of TÜSIAD, the book reveals that business leaders were willing to break away from the state due to the conflict between their evolving economic needs and power with a political elite and state that were unwilling to cater to their demands.
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 256 pages PB 9780755649006 • £28�99 / $39�95 • HB 9780755648962 • £85�00 / $115�00 ePub 9780755648986 • £76�50 / $105�78 ePdf 9780755648979 • £76�50 / $105�78 I�B� Tauris
Contemporary Turkey
Ceren Lord, University of Oxford, UK
Migratory Routes and the Meaning of the Local
Salim Aykut Öztürk Taking an anthropological approach and using ethnographic data collected from Turkey and Armenia collected over 10 years, this book focuses on themes of migration, human movement, community-making in contemporary Turkey. Looking at case studies ranging from bus drivers between Armenia and Turkey, undocumented migrants deported from Turkey now living in Armenian cities, and Armenian migrants in contemporary Istanbul neighbourhoods, Salim Aykut Öztürkr provides a vivid description of contemporary non-Muslim life in Turkey through the lives of Armenian citizens of Turkey and undocumented migrants from Armenia, as well as Greek, Jewish and Kurdish communities.
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 272 pages • 14 bw illus HB 9780755645077 • £85�00 / $115�00 ePub 9780755645091 • £76�50 / $105�78 ePdf 9780755645084 • £76�50 / $105�78 Series: Contemporary Turkey • I�B� Tauris
The Alawis of Modern Turkey
History, Identity and Politics
Hakan Mertcan, Bucerius Law School, Germany This volume charts the history, identity-formation and politics of the Arab 'Alawis of Turkey. It examines the attitudes to the 'Alawis in the early years of the Turkish Republic and the one party era, wherein 'Turkification' policies led to the suppression of 'Alawi identity. It also explores the multi-party period when 'Sunnification' policies lead to further suppression, culminating in more assimilationist policies under the junta of the 1980s. Hakan Mertcan offers various perspectives on the relationship between the 'Alawis and the state, and the evolution of 'Alawi political identity this gave rise to. Published in association with the British Institute at Ankara.
UK March 2023 • US March 2023 • 240 pages • 38 bw illus HB 9780755617111 • £85�00 / $115�00 ePub 9780755617135 • £76�50 / $105�78 Series: Contemporary Turkey • I�B� Tauris World English
