More Shopping OptionsIn this book, the authors trace the emergence of Atatürk and Reza Shah through the constitutional revolutions in Iran and the Ottoman Empire, which led to the introduction of European social models, the establishment of dictatorship and of secularist reforms. In both cases, this resulted in highly authoritarian, nationalist, and quasi-westernized states, and the personality cult of the leader.
Touraj Atabaki is in the Department of Oriental Languages and Culture at the University of Utrecht.
Erik J. Zürcher is Professor of Turkish Studies at the University of Leiden.
Introduction: Theories of Modernisation, Nationalism and Nation-Building, Special Emphasis on the Concept of “Defensive Modernisation” * The Constitutional Legacy * National Liberation and Revolutionary Leadership * Authoritarian Modernisation * The Results and Limits of Top-Down Modernisation * Conclusion: The Kemalist and Pahlevi Experience in the Global Context of the Interbellem
