Tormented by History: Nationalism in Greece and Turkey

by Spyros A. Sofos and Umut Özkırımlı

Book Overview

Tormented by History is the first comparative study of nationalism in Greece and Turkey. Grounded in an extensive critical review of the popular and scholarly historiography and literature on Greek and Turkish nationalisms, it traces the emergence and development of the Greek and Turkish nationalist projects over the past two hundred years, challenging the received wisdom about the inevitability of the rise of a 'Greek' and a 'Turkish' nation.Acknowledging...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199326649
• ISBN13: 9780199326648
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.4"