Abstract
SIR HARRY LUKE'S personal acquaintance with Turkey began so long ago as 1904, and at one point or another he has been in touch with the Turk ever since that date. In consequence he speaks with authority and understanding of the ideals and aspirations which inspired the political and social movements of the present century and have transformed Turkey from the titular seat of an international spiritual hegemony, as was claimed, into a nationalist State. His purpose is not to write a history of the Turks, but to analyse the forces and the elements which, partly rooted in Byzantium, partly arising out of the consequences of the conversion of the Turks to Islam, made the country in the end “the Sick Man of Europe”, and in the inevitable disintegration of an international society, left nationalism and a dictator as apparently the only way open to reform.
The Making of Modern Turkey, from Byzantium to Angora
By Sir Harry Luke. Pp. viii + 246 + 1 plate. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1936.) 10s. 6d. net.
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The Making of Modern Turkey, from Byzantium to Angora. Nature 138, 743 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138743b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/138743b0