This course is available on the BA in History, BSc in Government and History, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and History. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit. This course is available to General Course students.
This course is available on the BA in History, BSc in Government and History, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and History. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit. This course is available to General Course students.
Lectures will be online. The School aims to run in-person classes, subject to circumstances, with some online provision if?and where necessary. There will be a reading week in the Michaelmas and the Lent Terms.
Students are required to submit one essay of 2000 words in the Michaelmas Term.
A full reading list will be provided at the start of the course. Most of the selected readings are written by scholars from Turkey. The textbook is Erik J. Z?rcher, Turkey, A Modern History, 4th ed. Other readings will include Nilufer G?le, The Forbidden Modern: Civilization and Veiling; Kemal Karpat, The Politicisation of Islam; M?ge G??ek, Denial of Violence; Mark Mazower, Salonica: City of Ghosts; Yal?in ?etinkaya, The Young Turks and the Boycott Movement; Taner Ak?am, A Shameful Act; S?kr? Hanioğlu, Atat?rk: An Intellectual Biography; Esra ?zy?rek, Nostalgia for the Modern; Fethiye ?etin, My Grandmother: An Armenian-Turkish Memoir; Beg?m Adalet, Hotels and Highways: The Construction of Modernization Theory in Cold War Turkey; G?k?e Yurdakul, The Headscarf Debates; and a graphic novel, Jenny White and Erg?n G?nd?z, Turkish Kaleidoscope: Fractured Lives in a Time of Violence.
Essay (50%, 3000 words) in the LT. Essay (50%, 3000 words) in the ST.