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Author:

Adalet, Begu˜m, author.

Title:

Hotels and highways : the construction of modernization theory in Cold War Turkey / Begu˜m Adalet.

Publisher:

Stanford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xi, 286 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Economic development--Turkey--History--20th century.
Economic assistance, American--Turkey--History--20th century.
Turkey--Economic conditions--20th century.
Social change--Turkey--History--20th century.
Turkey--Relations--United States.
United States--Relations--Turkey.
Social sciences--United States--History--History--20th century.
Economic assistance, American.
Economic development.
Economic history.
International relations.
Social change.
Social sciences--Philosophy.
Turkey.
United States.
1900-1999
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Beastly politics : Dankwart Rustow and the Turkish model of modernization -- Questions of modernization : empathy and survey research -- Material encounters : experts, reports, and machines -- "It's not yours if you can't get there" : modern roads, mobile subjects -- The innkeepers of peace : hospitality and the Istanbul Hilton.

Series:

Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures

ISBN:

1503604292
9781503604292
150360554X
9781503605541

OCLC:

(OCoLC)999439973

LCCN:

2017053164

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)