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Subject(s)

• Nationalism—Turkey—History [Browse]
• National characteristics, Turkish [Browse]
• Turkey—History—Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 [Browse]
• Turkey—History—20th century [Browse]
• Turkey—Boundaries—History [Browse]
• Turkey—Foreign relations [Browse]

Summary note

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 period--when it signified a certain territorial integrity and imperial ideology--through its acquisition of religious undertones and its evolution alongside the concept of millet (nation), Behlül Özkan engages readers in the fascinating ontology of Turkey's protean imagining of its nationhood and the construction of a modern national-territorial consciousness.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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ISBN

• 9780300172010 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
• 030017201X ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))

LCCN

2011042675

OCLC

758646858

Other standard number

• 99952702055
• 99946952046

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