Turkey,
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| Author / Creator: | Lengyel, Emil, 1895-1985. |
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| Imprint: | New York, Random House [©1941] |
| Description: | x, 474 pages plates, portraits, map 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1926794 |
Table of Contents:
- Part one: The faithful peninsula, Turkey and her people. Who are the Turks?; They came from near and far, The peasant and his wooden plow, New customs for old, On pride and prejudice, The Turk's environment; Two prophets and one religion; No god but Allah, The prophet's religion, Howlers and whirlers, The other prophet
- founder of modern Turkey; Two questions and one answer; The question of the Straits
- The Armenian question
- Part two: East and west, Turkey's history. The creation of an empire; On the rocks and in the gardens, Out of the east the horsemen came, "The perfect warrior", The founding of the Ottoman Empire; The destruction of an empire; Tides and ebbs, "His eyes shall see his destruction", Old Turks and young Turks, The desert revolts, The death of an empire; The birth of a republic.