Abstract
Nicolas Danforth’s book “The Remaking of Republican Turkey” is a fine guide to delve deeper into the issue of the Turkish modernity. A major insight of the book concerns the logic of modernization – full of multi-layered paradoxes, political inconsistence and social tensions. Moreover, the book tells the story of perpetual struggle between different versions of modernity: authoritarian and democratic, imposed and adjusted. The main theme, besides modernity, is memory culture that demonstrates contrasting representations of the national past by consciously created continuities as well as ruptures with the historical legacy.
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