NEW PERSPECTİVES ON TURKEY FALL 1999

İçindekiler Articles Nadir Özbek: The Politics of Poor Relief in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1876-1914. Haldun Gülalp: The Poverty of Democracy in Turkey: The Refah Party Episode. Anat Lapidot-Firilla: The Memoirs of Halide Edip (1884-1964): The Public Persona and the Personal Narrative. Duygu Köksal: The Dilemmas of a Search for Cultural Synthesis: A Portrait of Cemil Meriç as a Conservative Intellectual. Fuad Aleskerov, Gamze Avcı, Z. Umut Türem: European Union Enlargement andPower Distribution in the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament: The Case of the Turkish Application. Review Article Ayşe Gül Altınay: Mehmedin Kitabı: Challenging Narratives of War and Nationalism. Book Reviews Theoharis Stavrides: Theodore Spandounes. On the origins of the Ottoman Emperors. Şevket Pamuk: Edhem Eldem. French Trade in Istanbul in the Eighteenth Century. Faruk Tabak: Dina Rizk Khoury. State and Provincial Society in the Ottoman Empire: Mosul, 1540-1834. Patricia J. Woods: Lila Abu-Lughod. Remaking Women. Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East.