by Suzy Hansen
Smithsonian Institution
Snow (Pamuk)
Snow City Airport Restaurant
socialism
Sofokleous neighborhood (Greece)
Soltan, Mohamed
Soma coal mines
Soma Holding
Somalia
Somali Stand-Up Street
sömürmek (exploit)
Soviet Union
Spanish-American War
Spiridou, Pericles
Stages of Economic Growth, The (Rostow)
Stalin, Joseph
Stallone, Sylvester
Standard Oil
State Department, U.S.
State Sovereignty Commission
“stay-behind organizations”
Stella, Joseph
Stieglitz, Alfred
Strong, Josiah
Suez Canal
Sufism
Sukarno, President
Şükran Apartmanı
Sultanahmet
Sultangazi
Sun Language Theory
Syed, Hassina
Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916)
Syntagma Square
Syria
Syrian civil war
Syrian Protestant College
Taft, William Howard
Tahrir Square protests
Taksim Square
Taliban
Tanpınar, Ahmet Hamdi
Taraf
Tayfun (DİSK representative)
Taylan, Orhan
Tehran
Tekel (company)
Tender Soldier, The (Gezari)
“Terrible Turks”
tesettür (long coats)
Thatcher, Margaret
Third World
Tibi, Bassam
Time magazine
Tito (Josip Broz)
Tokyo firebombing
Topkapı Palace
Tragedy of American Diplomacy, The (Williams)
Trujillo, Rafael
Truman, Harry S.
Truman Doctrine
Trump, Donald
Trump, Donald, Jr.
Tuğba
Tünel neighborhood
Tunzelmann, Alex von
Türk-İş
Turkey: alcohol ban in; anti-Americanism in; Armenian genocide as issue in; capitalism in; Civil War of; class issues in; corruption in; “Deep State” of; democracy in; education in; elections in (1950); highways and roads in; human rights in; industrialization of; Kemalism in; labor unions in; men in; military coup in (1980); military coup in (2016); modernization theory in; nationalism in; Parliament of; peasantry in; police of; refugees in; secularism in; tobacco industry of; torture in; U.S. relations with; women in; see also specific cities and towns
“Turkey’s Islamist Danger” (Tibi)
Turkish History Thesis
Turkish-Islamic Synthesis
Turkish language
“Turkish school”
Turkish-U.S. Relations
Turkish Woman, The (Muhittin)
Twitter
United Fruit Company
United Nations
United States: “American dream” as ideal of; capitalism in; democracy in; economic sanctions by; “exceptionalism” of; financial crisis (2008) in; foreign hostility towards (anti-Americanism); foreign relations of; as global power; health care in; immigration to; imperialism of; individualism in; innocence and sincerity of; journalism in; liberalism in; missionaries from; national identity of; naval forces of; nuclear weapons of; oil industry of; Pax Americana of; racism in; trade surpluses of; war on terror of
Updike, John
Uruguay
USAID
U.S. Army War College
Valve World
Varoufakis, Yanis
veils
Venizelos, Eleftherios
Vidal, Gore
Vietnam War
Volcker, Paul
Wag the Dog
Wall, N.J.
War in a Time of Peace (Halberstam)
warlords
Washington, George
Watergate scandal
Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood
“We Didn’t Start the Fire” (Joel)
Weinberger, Caspar
Welfare Party
Wells, Vonda
Wharton, Annabel Jane
Wharton, Edith
Wharton School
“Where’s My Ghost Money?” (Omar)
White Revolution
White Turks
Whitman, Walt
Wideman, John Edgar
Williams, William Appleman
Wills, Garry
Wilson, Woodrow
Wood, Michael
Workshops of Empire (Bennett)
World Bank
World War I
World War II
Wyeth, N. C.
Yalçın, Aylin
Yaqub, Salim
Yozgat
Yugoslavia
Zaborowska, Magdalena J.
Zaghlul, Sa’ad
Zaman
Zarqawi, Abu Musab al-
Zia-ul-Haq, Muhammad
Zinni, Anthony
Ziya, Aptullah
Zurayk, Constantine
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Suzy Hansen is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and has written for many other publications. In 2007, she was awarded a fellowship from the Institute of Current World Affairs to do research in Turkey. She lives in Istanbul. Notes on a Foreign Country is her first book. You can sign up for email updates here.
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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Epigraphs
Introduction
1. First Time East: Turkey
2. Finding Engin: Turkey
3. A Cold War Mind: America and the World
4. Benevolent Interventions: Greece and Turkey
5. Money and Military Coups: The Arab World and Turkey
6. Little Americas: Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Turkey
7. American Dreams: America, Iran, and Turkey
Epilogue
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
A Note About the Author
Copyright
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Copyright © 2017 by Suzy Hansen
All rights reserved
First edition, 2017
Portions of this book originally appeared, in different form, in The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, The National, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bookforum, Newsweek, the London Review of Books, The New York Observer, The Baffler, The American Scholar, and publications of the Institute of Current World Affairs.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Hansen, Suzy, 1977– author
Title: Notes on a foreign country: an American abroad in a post-American world / Suzy Hansen.
Description: First edition. | New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017. | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016059415 | ISBN 9780374280048 (hardback) | ISBN 9780374712440 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Hansen, Suzy, 1977–—Travel. | Foreign correspondents—United States—Biography. | United States—Foreign public opinion, Turkish. | United States—Relations—Turkey. | Turkey—Relations—United States. | BISAC: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
Classification: LCC PN4874.H227 A3 2017 | DDC 070.92 [B]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/201605
9415
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