Turkey's Engagement with Modernity : Conflict and Change in the Twentieth Century / edited by Celia Kerslake, Kerem Öktem, Philip Robins.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 460-466) and index.

Synopsis : Tensions of modernity: looking back to a century of nationalism / Kerem Öktem --Introduction: Atatürk and Kemalism throughout the twentieth century / Andrew Mango -- Part I) The State, Its Politics and International Relations -- Nations Buildings and Its Challenges -- 1. The Ottoman educational legacy / Benjamin C. Fortna -- 2. Genç Kalemler and Turkish nationalism / Murat Belge -- 3. Nation building and feminism in early republican Turkey / Yeşim Arat -- Islam, the Military and State -- 4. The importance of being secular : Islam in the service of the national and pre-national state / Erik-Jan Zürcher -- 5. Transformation of Sufi-based communities in modern Turkey : the Nakşibendis, the Nurcus, and the Gülen community / Elizabeth Özdalga -- 6. Military and politics in Turkey / Feroz Ahmad -- Institutions and Public Policy -- 7. The Turkish Grand National Assembly: new challenges and old problems / Ersin Kalaycıoğlu -- 8. University governance in Turkey / İlter Turan -- 9. Opportunities, freedoms and restrictions : women and employment in Turkey / Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat -- 10. Poverty, social policy and modernity in Turkey / Sencer Ayata -- 11. Forgotten campaigns : a history of disease in Turkey / Halis Akder -- Turkey as International Actor -- 12. Turkey and the great powers / Henri J. Barkey -- 13. The evolution of Turkish national security strategy / Ian Lesser -- 14. Turkey's engagement with Europe : a history of mutual management / Nuri Yurdusev -- Part II ) Society and Culture in Flux -- The Republic in Culture and Arts -- 15. "Westernisation against the West": cultural politics in the early Turkish republic / Orhan Koçak -- 16. The Turkish novel: from model of modernity to puzzle of postmodernity / Nüket Esen -- 17. The Turkish music reform : from late Ottoman times to the early republic / Emre Aracı -- Media and Popular Culture -- 18. Fashioning the Turkish body politic / Arus Yumul -- 19. Two faces of the press in Turkey : the role of the media in Turkey's modernisation and democracy / Şahin Alpay -- 20. Rapid commercialisation and continued control: the Turkish media in the 1990s / Ayşe Öncü -- Social and Urban Histories -- 21. From 'cubic houses' to suburban villas: residential architecture and the elites in Turkey / Sibel Bozdoğan -- 22. Tin town to fanatics : Turkey's rural to urban migration from 1923 to the present / Jenny B. White -- 23. Oral history and memory studies in Turkey / Leyla Neyzi.

Turkey's Enagement with Modernity explores how the country has been shaped in the image of the Kemalist project of nationalist modernity and how it has transformed, if erratically, into a democratic society where tensions between religion, state and society continue unabated.