Awards
- Joint winner for Erasmus Research Prize 2010.
- Winner of Winner of the Erasmus Research Prize (Praemium Erasmianum) 2010 Winner of the Keetje Hodshon Prize, awarded by The Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities.
- Winner of Winner of the Erasmus Research Prize (Praemium Erasmianum) 2010 Winner of the Keetje Hodshon Prize, awarded by The Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities.
Overview
The eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire used to be a multi-ethnic region where Armenians, Kurds, Syriacs, Turks, and Arabs lived together in the same villages and cities. The disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and rise of the nation state violently altered this situation. Nationalist elites intervened in heterogeneous populations they identified as objects of knowledge, management, and change. These often violent processes of state formation destroyed historical regions and emptied multicultural cities, clearing the way for modern nation states. The Making of Modern Turkey highlights how the Young Turk regime, from 1913 to 1950, subjected Eastern Turkey to various forms of nationalist population policies aimed at ethnically homogenizing the region and incorporating it in the Turkish nation state. It examines how the regime utilized technologies of social engineering, such as physical destruction, deportation, spatial planning, forced assimilation, and memory politics, to increase ethnic and cultural homogeneity within the nation state. Drawing on secret files and unexamined records, Ugur Ümit Üngör demonstrates that concerns of state security, ethnocultural identity, and national purity were behind these policies. The eastern provinces, the heartland of Armenian and Kurdish life, became an epicenter of Young Turk population policies and the theatre of unprecedented levels of mass violence.
Full Product Details
Author: Ugur Ümit Üngör (, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Utrecht University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.510kg
ISBN: 9780199655229
ISBN 10: 0199655227
Pages: 334
Publication Date: 01 March 2012
Audience:
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
<br> The book will be a bonanza for those who want to acquire a comparative perspective on the development of nationalism in other places. A short review cannot do justice to this rich book. One has to read it oneself and learn. --CHOICE<p><br>
Author Information
Ugur Ümit Üngör studied Sociology and History and defended his Ph.D. in 2009 (summa cum laude). He worked at the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. His main area of interest is the historical sociology of mass violence and nationalism.
