What are the roots of "ethnic cleansing", extreme nationalism and the re-invention of historical myths in the modern Balkans? This study of socialism among the Ottoman communities of Macedonians, Bulgarians, Armenians, Greeks and Jews of Salonika, between 1876 and 1923 investigates.
This revised edition builds upon the twin themes of Turkey's continuing incorporation into the capitalist world and the modernization of state and society.
Dit is de eerste studie die een vergelijkende analyse maakt van de militaire geschiedenis en de arbeidsgeschiedenis, twee onderzoeksterreinen die normaal gesproken strikt gescheiden zijn. De studie onderzoekt de rol van het leger als werkgever in de afgelopen 500 jaar: hoe werden er in verschillende delen van de wereld soldaten geworven en hoe zag hun diensttijd eruit? De auteurs, waaronder Robert Johnson, Frank Tallett en Gilles Weinstein, be...
Buddhism in China gathers for the first time Erik Zurcher's most central papers on Chinese Buddhism, dealing with the translation and language of Buddhist scriptures, interactions with Daoist traditions, activities of Buddhists below elite social levels, and typological comparisons with Christianity.
Universal conscription has been the main form of military recruitment in the 19th and 20th centuries. In Central Asia and the Middle East it has been ruthlessly imposed on agrarian and undeveloped societies with little regard for individual interest, economic disruption, or intense local resistance. This book provides a fresh approach to the understanding of conscription, with contributions from social and political historians in an area tradi...
Turkey: A Modern History', zoals de oorspronkelijke titel in het Engels luidt, werd voor het eerst uitgegeven in 1993. Sindsdien is het in acht talen vertaald, de Turkse editie werd meer dan dertig keer herdrukt. Inmiddels is dit boek hét gezaghebbende overzicht van de geschiedenis van het moderne Turkije. Deze uitgebreide en geactualiseerde versie bouwt voort op de twee centrale thema's: integratie van Turkije in het kapitalistische wereldsys...
Buddhism in China gathers for the first time Erik Zurcher's most central papers on Chinese Buddhism, dealing with the translation and language of Buddhist scriptures, interactions with Daoist traditions, activities of Buddhists below elite social levels, and typological comparisons with Christianity.
This revised edition builds upon and updates its twin themes of Turkey's continuing incorporation into the capitalist world and the modernization of state and society. It begins with the forging of closer links with Europe after the French Revolution, and the changing face of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century. Zürcher argues that Turkey's history between 1908 and 1950 should be seen as a unity, and offers a strongly revisionist interpreta...
Shows that Kemal's 'ideological toolkit', which included positivism, militarism, nationalism and a state-centred world view, was shared by several Young Turks. This book focuses on the attempts of the Young Turks to save their empire through forced modernization and on the attempts of their Kemalist successors to build a strong national state.
Presents a study of early Chinese Buddhism. This book, which is based on a doctoral dissertation begun in the early 1950s, also analyzes the development of the field from the 1950 onwards.
Shows that Kemal's 'ideological toolkit', which included positivism, militarism, nationalism and a state-centred world view, was shared by several Young Turks. This book focuses on the attempts of the Young Turks to save their empire through forced modernization and on the attempts of their Kemalist successors to build a strong national state.
