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Title: Effective Translation, Disappointing Scholarship
Review: Although Niyazi Berkes does bring to English significant works of the most prolific Young Turk, this work is disappointing. The dates and names of publications where Ziya Gokalp's essays were originally printed are not listed. This translation makes it impossible to compare the content of the Turkish nationist's ideas with the historical conditions at the time. Readers do not know when or where the essays were read or what may have prompted the writing. Much more scholarship of this kind needs to be done. Compared to other regions of the world, there is a dearth of translation from great Turkish authors.
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