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This concise account of the life and career of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881--1938), the formidable "founder of modern Turkey", offers a substantial revaluation of a key figure in modern history, and also an introduction to the Turkish republic itself. It is a timely study with Turkey again at the centre of international attention, as Islamic fundamentalists challenge many of Atatürk's westernising and secularizing reforms, and as the regional aftershocks of the Soviet collapse reopen profound questions about Turkey's nature, role and relationships Atatürk had sought to settle for good. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Summarizing the momentous events of Ataturk’s life can be a challenge for any short work, the more so given the relative unfamiliarity of an English-language audience with the background of events. In this, A. L. Macfie does a commendable job in this concise biography of Ataturk of providing an efficient explanation of the developments of the period within the framework of his subject’s life. The combination gives the reader a useful, analysis of the public career of the Turkish leader, one that summarizes nicely his life and achievements.
Yet Macfie’s achievement hampers the book in other ways. While he is able to balance the examinations of Ataturk and his times nicely in his chapters on the period when Ataturk is in power, Macfie is less successful in weaving together the disparate strands of his subject’s early years and the contemporary history of the late Ottoman empire. As a result, Ataturk disappears from the early chapters as he is shunted aside for an abridged history of Ottoman reform movements, or the early wars, demonstrating the limitations of its scope. In the end, while this book is a useful study of Ataturk’s career, it lacks the space to do justice to the broad task the author sets himself. Readers desiring a more comprehensive account of his life would be better advised to seek out Andrew Mango’s lengthier biography, [b:Atatürk: The Biography of the founder of Modern Turkey|190401|Atatürk The Biography of the founder of Modern Turkey|Andrew Mango|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1386924187s/190401.jpg|184078], which is recommended for anyone wanting more than a brief introduction to “the father of modern Turkey”. ( )