In the Shadow of War and Empire
Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics in Turkey
Abstract
In the Shadow of War and Empire offers a site-specific history of Ottoman and Turkish industrialisation through the lens of a mid-nineteenth-century cotton factory in the “Turkish Manchester,” the name chosen by the Ottomans for the industrial complex they built in the 1840s in Istanbul, which, in the contemporary words of one of the country’s most prominent contemporary Marxist theorists, became “the secret to and the basis of Turkish capitalism" in the 1930s.
Keywords
Atatürk; interwar period; micro-history; nationalism; Ottoman Empire; state-building; state-led industrialisation; Trade Union; Turkish ManchesterDOI
10.1163/9789004687141ISBN
9789004687141, 9789004416741, 9789004687141Publisher
BrillPublisher website
https://0-brill-com.catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/Publication date and place
2023Classification
Social and cultural history
Middle East
c 1500 onwards to present day