Dervish: The Invention of Modern Turkey

Kelsey, Tim

ISBN 10: 0241132894 / ISBN 13: 9780241132890

Published by Hamish Hamilton, 1996

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HARDBACK, ?UNCOMMON,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 1996* Publisher: * Binding and cover condition: Maroon cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no shelf wear. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper showing a dervish dancing, beige titles to spine and face. Spine heavily faded. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, price clipped, showing a shelf price of £18.00 (Can $35.00). Minimal, shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp and tight with no reading wear, no marks to text, some considerable age to page margins and edges, has ?Damaged? stamp to rear end paper due to small missing section to front paste down, otherwise no visible faults. VG.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 322 pp. text.* Description: Blending the present and the past, the Arabesque and the contemporary pop scene, Kurdish insurgents and whirling dervishes, this book attempts to portray the diversity of Turkey and Turkish society. Transvestite nightclubs, the problems of heritage, the theatre, the clash between Eastern and Western Turkey, tribes and the civil war between Turkish military and Kurdish separatists, the booming heroin trade and cultural intolerance, all form part of the book.* A VG text copy of the 1st/1st fnl. with some minor faults and some paper colouration.* 1996-02-29.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dervish: The Invention of Modern Turkey
• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241132894
• ISBN 13: 9780241132890
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: y 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp. FNL.
• Condition: VG/F/VG
• Seller catalogs:
  • Social History

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Synopsis

Unlike most writers, who give a European eye-view of a Turkey that mourns all that is lost, and consider it in the light of a holiday resort, this book explores a Turkey which is seeking out its own identity and which is beginning to realise it s not simply a bridge between East and West. The lowlife of tranvestite nightclubs, the problems of heritage, the theatre, the clash between Eastern and Western Turkey, tribes and the current civil war between Turkish military and Kurdish separatists, the booming heroin trade and cultural intolerance all form part of the book, bringing to light a Turkey which is not so much a country so much as a state of mind.