{"product_id":"the-shortest-history-of-turkey-9789361133497","title":"The Shortest History of Turkey","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Benjamin C. Fortna\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Picador India\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Picador India\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe world-changing story of Turkey – a country caught between two worlds\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis brilliant distillation traces Turkey’s long and complicated history from the rise and decline of the Ottoman Empire – the most enduring, and perhaps the most important, Islamic empire in history – to the emergence of the modern Turkish Republic in the early twentieth century and the populist, authoritarian leadership of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan today.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOver more than nine centuries of change, Turkey has been a cultural melting pot, straddling Asia and Europe, and a nation-state bent on ethnic unity. It has seen conquest and reform, appeals to tradition and calls to modernise. It has been a home to Christians, Jews, Muslims and others, while pursuing both secularisation and Islamisation with equal fervour.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Shortest History of Turkey\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, historian Benjamin Fortna offers a concise yet nuanced overview of this complex trajectory, revealing how persistent tensions between opposing visions for Turkey have shaped, and continue to shape, the country and its people.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador India","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47168503021719,"sku":"9789361133497","price":420.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789361133497.webp?v=1773224903","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-shortest-history-of-turkey-9789361133497","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}