Turkey In Transition New Perspectives

by Irvin Cemil Schick (Editor), E. A. Tonak (Editor)

This collection of essays by prominent Turkish scholars provides a comprehensive historical, political, and economic analysis of Turkey from the inception of its republic after World War I right up to the present. The essays--most never before published in English--break away from the conventional analytic approach, which holds the modernization process of 19th-century Europe as a paradigm for all developing countries. Instead, the contributors focus on Turkey's transition to capitalism to reveal other, indigenous paths to development experienced by many non-Western nations. The anthology concludes with an assessment of the past decade and examines future prospects for the nation.

Unknown Binding

First published April 16, 1987

About the author

Irvin Cemil Schick was born in Istanbul, Turkey, and obtained his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989. He has taught at Harvard University and M.I.T., where he is now a researcher. He is the author of The Erotic Margin: Sexuality and Spatiality in Alteritist Discourse and The Fair Circassian: Adventures of an Orientalist Motif (in Turkish), and the editor or co-editor of several books, including Turkey in Transition: New Perspectives, European Female Captives and their Muslim Masters: Narratives of Captivity from "Turkish Lands" (in Turkish), Women in the Ottoman Balkans: Gender,Culture, History, and the M. Ugur Derman 65th Birthday Festschrift.