The Turks in World History [Paperback]

Beginning in Inner Asia two thousand years ago, the Turks have migrated and expanded to form today's Turkish Republic, five post-Soviet republics, other societies across Eurasia, and a global diaspora. For the first time in a single, accessible volume, this book traces the Turkic peoples' trajectory from steppe, to empire, to nation-state. Cultural, economic, social, and political history unite in these pages to illuminate the projection of Turkic identity across space and time and the profound transformations marked successively by the Turks' entry into Islam and into modernity.

This is a first-rate book, of a kind that has never been written before. --Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association

An ambitious and timely book...One has to admire his ability to make accessible long-range and deeply complex developments. --Matthew Gordon,Journal of World History

An original and masterful synthesis of the complex six-thousand year history of the tribes, clans, and empires that produced the dozens of peoples generally known as Turks or TurkicAny tribute to Findley, already at the pinnacle of Turkish and Ottoman studies, is fully deserved. --Kemal Karpat,TheHistorian

Findley's book has many merits, and he has written a considered and balanced, as well as a readable, survey, which should help to bring the disparate fields of 'Turkic'/Turkish/Ottoman history to the attention of a non-specialist audience. --The International History Review

A timely, rich, and accessible work. A welcome addition to the field of world history. --Africa and the Middle East

Findley's study is to be admired for its attempt to place the history of the Turks within the larger context of world history and its wide-ranging discussion of the impact of modernity. --Middle East Journal

Carter Vaughn Findley's book is one of the most noteworthy achievements iló;