Limits of Westernization - A Cultural History of America in Turkey

The Limits of Westernization analyzes the complex local uses of "the West" to explain how the United States could become both the best and the worst in the Turkish political imagination. Gurel traces how ideas about westernization and America have influenced national history writing and policy making, as well as everyday affects and identities. Zusammenfassung The Limits of Westernization analyzes the complex local uses of "the West" to explain how the United States could become both the best and the worst in the Turkish political imagination. Gürel traces how ideas about westernization and America have influenced national history writing and policy making, as well as everyday affects and identities.

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• Authors: Perin E. G Rel, Perin E. G?rel, Perin Gurel, Perin E. Gurel, Perin Gürel
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9780231182027
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18202-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Columbia Studies in International and Global History; Columbia Studies in Internatio; Columbia Studies in International and Global History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History, Ottoman Empire, HISTORY / Middle East / General, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / United States / General, HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Treaties, International Relations, Middle East, United States of America, USA, Middle Eastern history, General and world history, History of the Americas