Brockett, Gavin D.

How happy to call oneself a Turk : provincial newspapers and the negotiation of a Muslim national identity / Gavin D. Brockett. - 1st ed. - Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press, c2011. - xviii, 291 p. : ill. map ; 24 cm. - Modern Middle East series ; no. 26. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]) and index.

Imagining the secular nation : Mustafa Kemal and the creation of modern Turkey -- Narrating the nation : print culture and the nationalist historical narrative -- Provincial newspapers and the emergence of a national print culture -- Religious print media and the national print culture -- Muslim Turks against Russian communists : the Turkish nation in the emerging Cold War world -- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and Mehmed the Conqueror : negotiating a national historical narrative -- Religious reactionaries or Muslim Turks? : print culture and the negotiation of national identity -- Conclusion: A Muslim national identity in modern Turkey.

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Ataturk, Kemal, 1881-1938 --Political and social views.


Nationalism--History--Turkey--20th century.
Identification (Religion)--History--Turkey--20th century--Political aspects.
Muslims--History--Turkey--20th century.
Mass media--History--Turkey--20th century--Political aspects.
Mass media--History--Turkey--20th century--Social aspects.
Printing--History--Turkey--20th century--Social aspects.
Printing--History--Turkey--20th century--Political aspects
Turkish newspapers--History--20th century.


Turkey--Politics and government--1918-1960.

PN5449.T8 / B76 2011