Author

Publication

2016 - Palgrave Macmillan

Language

English

Word Count

74,750 words, Guess

Page Count

299 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139783319410609
  • ISBN-103319410601
  • OCLC Control Number950954310
  • Better World Books9783319410609
  • Open LibraryOL37265067M

Classifications

  • LCCDS41-66
  • LCCPR129.T9 K38 2016

Description

"This book is about the principal writings that shaped the perception of Turkey for informed readers in English, from Edward Gibbon's positing of imperial Decline and Fall to the proclamation of the Turkish Republic (1923), illustrating how Turkey has always been a part of the modern British and European experience. It is a great sweep of a story: from Gibbon as standard textbook, through Lord Bryon the pro-Turkish poet, and Benjamin Disraeli the Romantic novelist of all things Eastern, followed by John Buchan's Greenmantle First World War espionage fantasies, and then Manchester Guardian reporter Arnold Toymbee narrating the fight for Turkish independence."--Page [4] of cover.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Shaping of Turkey in the British Imagination, 1776-1923Palgrave Macmillan2016

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