LEWIS Bernard, The Birth of Modern Turkey.

The birth of modern Turkey.

Translated by. K. Dorosz. Warsaw 1972; PWN. 8, pp. 602, illustrations in the text, original fl. binding.
Traces of non. soiling and rubbing of the booklet cover. Good condition. The author discusses the successive transformations of the country, from the first tentative attempts at reform, through the period of great reforms in the 19th century, to the emergence of new political currents and directions and the formation of modern, secular and republican Turkey of the 20th century. The means he uses are those of a learned philologist and historian, based on a thorough analysis of oriental and hard-to-find European sources.