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Preface: Thirty Years of Turkish History
The Politician as Historian, Historians in Politics: On the Nutuk (Speech) of Mustafa Kemal Pasha
Young Turk Memoirs as a Historical Source: Kâzım
Karabekir’s I·stiklâl Harbimiz
The Historiography of the Constitutional Revolution: Broad
Consensus, Some Disagreement and a Missed
Opportunity
The Rise and Fall of ‘Modern’ Turkey: Bernard Lewis’s Emergence Fifty Years On
The Ottoman Empire 1850–1922: Unavoidable Failure?
The Ides of April: A Fundamentalist Uprising in Istanbul in 1909?
Sultan Mehmet V’s Visit to Kosovo in June 1911
Who Were the Young Turks?
The Young Turk Mindset
Atatürk as a Unionist
The Ottoman Legacy of the Kemalist Republic
The Young Turk Legacy and Nation Building
The Great War
The Ottoman Conscription System in Theory and Practice, 1844–1918
The Ottoman Soldier in World War I
The Ottoman Empire and the Armistice of Moudhros
Renewal and Silence: Post-war Unionist and
Kemalist Rhetoric on the Armenian Genocide
Young Turks, Ottoman Muslims and Turkish Nationalists:
Identity Politics 1908–38
Were the Progressives Conservative?
Institution Building in the Kemalist Republic Compared with
Pahlevi Iran: The People’s Party
Touring Anatolia at the End of the Atatürk Era: Kemalist
Turkey Observed by Western Visitors
Islam in the Service of the Caliphate and the Secular State
Turning Points and Missed Opportunities in the Modern
History of Turkey: Where Could Things Have Gone
Differently?
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