| American Turkish Encounters: Politics and Culture, 1830-1989 Contributor(s): Criss, Bilge Nur (Editor), Esenbel, Selcuk (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1443832057 ISBN-13: 9781443832052 Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing OUR PRICE: $84.10 Product Type: Hardcover Published: September 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Americas (north Central South West Indies) |
| Physical Information: 1.4" H x 5.9" W x 8.2" (1.49 lbs) 410 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Turkey and the United States have been critically important to each other since the beginning of the Cold War. The history of Turkish-American relations includes not only strategic, but also political, social, cultural and intellectual dimensions. While critical to understanding Turkish-American relations, these dimensions rarely surface in today's discourse, which reduces bilateral relations to issues currently being contested. In reality, the encounter between East and West embodied in Turkish-American interactions ranges from the official and diplomatic, to unofficial and informal exchanges at the social and individual level; while often compatible and friendly, such interactions occasionally have been less so. Authors from both countries developed a variety of perspectives on their interactions through original research that will enable both specialists and general readers to appreciate its many facets. Most scholarly works on the two nations have been limited to the analysis of US-Turkish relations in the context of Cold War politics. The editors intend that this volume will begin to fill a serious gap and encourage others to study American-Turkish relations from as many aspects as possible. This book shows that when seen in a historical framework, the American Turkish encounter took place beyond the level of formal political and military ties during the Cold War period and has enduringly interacted at the level of educational, social, and cultural realms. |