The Emergence of Modern Turkey

In 1960, when this book was new, the prospects of Turkey entering the European Union were somewhat brighter than they are in 2024. the progress towards a secularized but Islamic state, and a modern European style economy seemed easily attainable. The intervening decades have clouded this picture, so the book is currently seen as an interesting historical artefact, than an explanation of how an Islamic state could merge with the greater world economic and political systems. It has a clear account of the arrival of the sucessor state to the Ottoman Empire, unmatched in current writing on that topic. Well, worth the reading, and a preparation for reading his later work "What went Wrong." I read the 1960 edition.