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The power of the people : everyday resistance and dissent in the making of modern Turkey, 1923-38 / Murat Metinsoy.

By: Metinsoy, Murat [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021Description: pages cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781316515464Subject(s): Kemalism | Poor -- Political activity -- Turkey -- History -- 20th century | Government, Resistance to -- Turkey -- History -- 20th century | Social change -- Turkey -- History -- 20th century | HISTORY / Middle East / General | Turkey -- Politics and government -- 1918-1960Additional physical formats: Online version:: Power of the peopleDDC classification: 956.1/024 LOC classification: DR590 | .M483 2021Other classification: HIS026000
Contents:
Introduction : toward an infrahistory of republican Turkey -- The price of the republic for the peasants -- Raising voice and rural discontent -- Resisting the agricultural taxes -- Social smuggling : resistance to the monopolies -- Theft, violence and banditry -- The price of the republic for the working class -- Labor discontent -- Survival struggles and everyday resistance -- Violence, protests and walkouts -- The hotbeds of opposition to anti-secularism : mosques, coffehouses and homes -- Informal media vs. official discourse : word of mouth, rumors and placaords -- Neither fez, nor hat : contesting the hat reform -- Negotiating anti-veiling campaigns -- Old habits die hard : tenacity of old lifestyles in new times -- Epilogue : infrastructure of Turkey's modernization.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books The BIAA David H. French Library
Shelf 63 - Reading Room 		H2p METİN 32931 Not for loan BOOKS-000000027046

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : toward an infrahistory of republican Turkey -- The price of the republic for the peasants -- Raising voice and rural discontent -- Resisting the agricultural taxes -- Social smuggling : resistance to the monopolies -- Theft, violence and banditry -- The price of the republic for the working class -- Labor discontent -- Survival struggles and everyday resistance -- Violence, protests and walkouts -- The hotbeds of opposition to anti-secularism : mosques, coffehouses and homes -- Informal media vs. official discourse : word of mouth, rumors and placaords -- Neither fez, nor hat : contesting the hat reform -- Negotiating anti-veiling campaigns -- Old habits die hard : tenacity of old lifestyles in new times -- Epilogue : infrastructure of Turkey's modernization.