Between Two Empires : Ahmet Agaoglu and the New Turkey.
Title:
Between Two Empires : Ahmet Agaoglu and the New Turkey.
Author:
Shissler, A. Holly.
ISBN:
9780857710840
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (289 pages)
Series:
Library of Ottoman Studies
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter One- Family Life and Early Education -- Chapter Two- The French Background: Experiences and Relationships -- Chapter Three- French Writings -- Chapter Four- The Middle Eastern Intellectual Context -- Chapter Five- Back to the Caucasus: a Time of Ferment -- Chapter Six- Caucasian Writings -- Chapter Seven New Lands for Old? The Ottoman Empire -- Chapter Eight- Applied Turkism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
World-shaking revolutions in Russia in 1905 and 1917, and Ottoman Turkey in 1908, the First World War, the Turkish War of Independence, the establishment of Azerbaijan. These are the huge 20th century historical events reflected in Ahmet Agaoglu's life and writings. His life is a mirror of the tangled politics in a region where his role in establishing the Republic of Azerbaijan was decisive, as was his contribution to the intellectual ferment surrounding the problems of modernism, Western influence, identity and self-identification - as Persian, Turk, Muslim, Russian Muslim, Caucasian Muslim, or Turkish Muslim. This work is based on Agaoglu's journalistic output and fieldwork in the Caucasus as well as literature of the period.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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