Chronology; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction Resat Kasaba; Part I. Ottoman Background and Transition: 2. The Tanzimat Carter Findley; 3. The reign of Abdülhamid II Benjamin Fortna; 4. The second constitutional period Sükrü Hanioglu; 5. The struggle for independence Hasan Kayali; 6. Atatürk Andrew Mango; Part II.

Republic of Turkey: 7. migration and Turkey: the dynamics of state, society and politics Kemal Kirisci; 8. The migration story of Turks in Germany: from the beginning to the end Levent Soysal; 9. Politics and political parties in Republican Turkey Feroz Ahmad; 10. Economic change in twentieth century Turkey: is the glass more than half full? Sevket Pamuk; 11. Ideology, context, and interest: the Turkish military Ümit Cizre; 12. Kurds and the Turkish State Hamit Bozarslan; 13. Islam and politics in contemporary Turkey Jenny White; 14.

Sufism and Islamic groups in contemporary Turkey Ahmet Yükleyen; 15. Contestation and collaboration: women's struggles for empowerment in Turkey Yesim Arat; 16. Art and architecture In Modern Turkey: the Republican period Sibel Bozdogan; 17. The novel in Turkish: narrative tradition to Nobel prize Erdag Göknar; 18. A brief history of modern Istanbul Çaglar Keyder; Bibliography.