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Through the study of the 'People's Houses', the community centres opened and operated by the Republican People's Party in most cities and towns of Turkey, and using previously unpublished archival material, Lamprou analyses how ordinary people experienced, negotiated and resisted the reforms in the 1930s and 1940s and how this process contributed to the shaping of social identities. This book will be essential reading for students and scholars of nation-building, socio-cultural change and state-society relations in modern Turkey.  Free Download Jim Bowman, "Narratives of Cyprus: Modern Travel Writing and Cultural Encounters since Lawrence Durrell " English | ISBN: 184885918X | 2014 | 240 pages | PDF | 2 MB Unease has marked relations between modern travel writers and the people of Cyprus. 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