U N I V E R S I T Y O F T E X A S P R E S S | FA L L 2 0 2 4 67 EMINE Ö . EVERED east lansing, michigan Evered is an associate professor of history at Michigan State University. She is the author of Empire and Education under the Ottomans: Politics, Reform, and Resistance from the Tanzimat to the Young Turks. release date | december 6 x 9 inches, 288 pages, 20 b&w illustrations ISBN 978-1-4773-3031-9 $55 .00* | £49 .00 | C$68 .95 hardcover ISBN 978-1-4773-3033-3 $55 .00 e-book Prohibition in Turkey investigates the history of alcohol, its consumption, and its proscription as a means to better understand events and agendas of the late Ottoman and early Turkish republican eras. Through a comprehensive examination of archival, literary, popular culture, media, and other sources, it unveils a traditionally overlooked—and even excluded—aspect of human history in a region that many do not associate with intoxicants, inebriation, addiction, and vigorous wet-dry debates. Historian Emine Ö. Evered’s account uniquely chronicles how the Turko-Islamic Ottoman Empire developed strategies for managing its heterogeneous communities and their varied rights to produce, market, and consume alcohol, or to simply abstain. The first author to reveal this experience’s connections with American Prohibition, she demonstrates how—amid mod- ernization, sectarianism, and imperial decline—drinking prac- tices reflected, shifted, and even prompted many of the changes that were underway and that hastened the empire’s collapse. Ultimately, Evered’s book reveals how Turkey’s alcohol question never went away but repeatedly returns in the present, in mat- ters of popular memory, public space, and political contestation. A social history of alcohol, identity, secularism, and modernization from the late Ottoman and early Turkish republican eras to the present day | m i d d l e e a s t e r n s t u d i e s | History Prohibition in Turkey Alcohol and the Politics of Identity E M I N E Ö . E V E R E D
