TY  - BOOK
AU  - Worringer,Renée
TI  - Ottomans imagining Japan: East, Middle East, and non-western modernity at the turn of the twentieth century 
T2  - Palgrave Macmillan transnational history series
SN  - 9781137384591 (hardback)
AV  - DR479.J3 W67 2014
U1  - 327.56105209/04 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - HISTORY / Asia / Japan
KW  - HISTORY / Middle East / General
KW  - HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century
KW  - HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
KW  - HISTORY / Social History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Turkey
KW  - Relations
KW  - Japan
KW  - Foreign public opinion, Turkish
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - History
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1878-1909
KW  - 1909-1918
KW  - 1868-1912
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note: -- 1. IntroductionPART I: SEEKING OUT "MODERN" IN THE INTERNATIONAL ARENA2. Framing Power and the Need to Reverse3. The Ottoman Empire between Europe and Asia4. Asia in Danger: Ottoman-Japanese Diplomacy and FailuresPART II: DEFINING "MODERN" IN THE OTTOMAN MICROCOSM5. Ottoman Politics and the Japanese Model to 1908 6. The Young Turk Regime and the Japanese Model after 1908 7. Politics, Cultural Identity and the Japanese Example8. Ottoman Egypt Demands Independence: East and West, Christian and Muslim9. Competing Ottoman Narratives, Successor States, and "Non-Western" Modernity
N2  - "The roots of today's "clash of civilizations" between the Islamic world and the West are not solely anchored in the legacy of the crusades or the early Islamic conquests: in many ways, it is a more contemporary story rooted in the nineteenth-century history of resistance to Western hegemony. And as this compellingly argued and carefully researched transnational study shows, the Ottoman Middle East believed it had found an ally and exemplar for this resistance in Meiji Japan. Here, author Renee Worringer details the ways in which Japan loomed in Ottoman consciousness at the turn of the twentieth century, exploring the role of the Japanese nation as a model for Ottomans in attaining "non-Western" modernity in a global order dominated by the West. Japan's domestic and international achievements kindled a century-long fascination with the nation in Ottoman lands, one that arguably reached its ironic culmination with the arrival of Japanese troops in Iraq in 2004"--
ER  -