In the Shadow of War and Empire:Industrialisation,NationBuilding and WorkingClass Politics in Turkey

ANAMED Library Talks continue on July 1 with Görkem Akgöz and Aslı Odman. The talk is entitled “In the Shadow of War and Empire: Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working Class Politics in Turkey.” In the Shadow of War and Empire offers a site-specific history of Ottoman and Turkish industrialization through the lens of a mid-century cotton factory in the “Turkish Manchester,” the name chosen by the Ottomans for the industrial complex they built in the 1840s, which, in the contemporary words of one of the country’s most prominent Marxist theorists, became “the secret to and the basis of Turkish capitalism” in the 1930s. Aslı Odman will be the moderator of the talk. This month’s talk will be online.