^{#smrgKİTABEVİ} From Empire to Republic 1: Essays on the Late Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey -

In these two volumes of essays, Feroz Ahmad focuses on a crucial period of Turkish modernization, from Young Turk period to the Republic of Turkey and the relationship between the Committee of Union and Progress and Modern Turkey. He discusses the works of a generation of reformers and engineers of a new social order, as well as events that shaped the path of modernisation. These articles deal with the period since the 1908 revolution, examining the process by which the new Turkey was formed. The author also underlines the crises of legitimacy that characterized much of the period.

The essays in two volumes are compiled thematically. The first volume deals with the “ideas” of modernisation which span the period of Young Turk Revolution to the Kemalist movement. The volume also analyzes various other topics such as Unionist relations with non-Muslim communities, the social and economic policy of the Young Turks, and the political economy of Kemalism. The second volume discusses events of the same period and examines how a revolutionary such as Leon Trotsky saw about the Young Turk revolution. There are also articles on the development of working-class consciousness, how postage stamps reflected ideology in the late Ottoman Empire, and the Ottoman perception of the capitulations. Taken as a whole these two volumes will help readers understand some of the problems Turkey is facing today.