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02150aam a2200349Ia 4500 001 E37702D8376E11E1999191C06AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20120105010528 008 110321s2010 enkab e b 001 0 eng 020 $a 0500251754 020 $a 9780500251751 035 $a (OCoLC)708287818 040 $a AU@ $b eng $c AU@ $d SILO $d HLS $d DGU $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d CDX $d UKMGB $d SILO 043 $a a-tu--- 050 4 $a DR440 $b .S76x 2010 050 4 $a DR440 $b .S76x 2010 082 04 $a 956.1 $2 21 100 1 $a Stone, Norman. 245 1 $a Turkey : $b a short history / $c Norman Stone. 246 3 $a Turkey, a short history. 260 $a London : $b Thames & Hudson, $c 2010. 300 $a 192 p. : $b ill., map ; $c 24 cm. 500 $a "Chronology": P. 168-173. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-182) and index. 505 0 $a Origins -- World empire -- Zenith -- Shadows -- Changing balance -- The long defensive -- End of empire -- Crash -- Epilogue : the Turkish republic. 520 8 $a "For six hundred years Turkey was at the heart of the Ottoman Empire, a superpower that brought Islam to the gates of Vienna and stretched to North Africa, the Persian Gulf and the river Volga. Stone examines the reasons for the astonishing rise and the long decline of this world empire and how for its last hundred years it became the centre of the Eastern Question, as the Great Powers argued over a regime in its death throes. Then, as now, the position of Turkey--a country balanced between two continents--provoked passionate debate. Norman Stone concludes the book with a trenchant examination of the Turkish republic created in the aftermath of the First World War, where East and West, religion and secularism, tradition and modernization are vibrant and sometimes conflicting elements of national identity"--Publishesr's description, p. [2] of dust jacket. 651 0 $a Turkey $x History. 651 0 $a Turkey $x History $y Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918. 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160825085504.0 952 $l OIAX792 $d 20120410010639.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E37702D8376E11E1999191C06AFF544EInitiate Another SILO Locator Search