Resources on Turkish History

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Books

Aksin, Sina. Turkey from Empire to Revolutionary Republic: The Emergence of the Turkish Nation from 1789 to the Present. New York: New York University Press, 2006.
Erickson, Edward J.Gallipoli: Command Under Fire. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2015.
Erickson, Edward J. Ottoman Army Effectiveness in World War I: A Comparative Study. New York: Routledge, 2007.
Erickson, Edward J. Ordered to Die: A History of the Ottoman Army in the First World War. London: Greenwood Press, 2001.
Findley, Carter Vaughn. The Turks in World History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Finkel, Caroline. Osman’s Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire 1300-1923. New York: Basic Books, 2005.
Goodwin, Jason. Lords of the Horizons. A History of the Ottoman Empire. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1999.
Kinzer, Stephen. Crescent & Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2008.
Lewis, Bernard. The Emergence of Modern Turkey. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Makovsky, Alan and Sabri Sayari, eds. Turkey’s New World: Changing Dynamics in Turkish Foreign Policy. Washington, DC: Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2000.
Mango, Andrew. The Turks Today. New York: Overlook Press, 2004.
Mango, Andrew. Ataturk: The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey. New York: Overlook Press, 2002.
McCarthy, Justin. The Ottoman Turks: An Introductory History to 1923. New York: Longman, March 1997.
McCarthy, Justin. The Ottoman Peoples and the End of Empire. London: Hodder Arnold, 2001.
McCarthy, Justin. Death and Exile: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ottoman Muslims, 1821-1922. Darwin Press, 1996.
Pope, Hugh. Sons of the Conquerors: The Rise of the Turkic World. New York: Overlook Press, 2005.
Reisman, Arnold. Turkey's Modernization: Refugees from Nazism and Ataturk's Vision. Washington, DC: New Academia Pub., 2006.
Shaw, Stanford J. and Ezel Kural Shaw. History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977.
Shaw, Stanford. From Empire to Republic: The Turkish War of National Liberation, 1918-1923 (A Documentary Study). The Turkish Historical Foundation (5 volumes), 2000.
Shaw, Stanford J. and Ezel Kural Shaw. The Jews of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1991.
Yavuz Hakan and Peter Sluglett (eds). War and Diplomacy: The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 and the Treaty of Berlin. Utah: Utah University Press, 2011.
Zürcher, Erik J. Turkey: A Modern History. London: I.B. Tauris, 2004.