Germans and Turks
A Forgotten History of Europe
$55.37
- Paperback
424 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2026
Summary
German-Turkish relations form an integral backdrop to many of today’s most pressing political concerns, including the absorption of refugees from the Middle East in Europe, debates about coexistence with Muslims in Western societies, and European geopolitics in Western Asia. Yet the story of this relationship, its 800-year history and often fateful consequences, has never been fully told.
In this book, Stefan Ihrig presents the first combined history of the two peoples, from the Middl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780755660018 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0755660013 |
| Author: | Stefan Ihrig |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 424 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 480g |
| Dimensions: | 34mm x 154mm x 232mm |
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Critics Review
Germans and Turks is an impressive work of synthesis. By bringing together nearly a thousand years of interaction within a single interpretive framework, Ihrig demonstrates the depth and complexity of a relationship that has too often been studied in isolation or through narrowly national perspectives. * Turkish Studies *
Throughout the centuries, Germans and the Turks developed an ‘elective affinity,’ and Stefan Ihrig does a great job telling this story * Ayhan Aktar, author of Nationalism and Non-Muslim Minorities in Turkey, 1915–1950 *
Stefan Ihrig
Stefan Ihrig is Professor of History at the University of Haifa, Israel. His previous books include Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination (2014) and Justifying Genocide: Germany and the Armenians from Bismarck to Hitler (2016), winner of the 2017 Sona Aronian Book Prizes for Excellence in Armenian Studies.
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