The Armenian Genocide

The Armenian Genocide
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 814
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ISBN-10 : 9781782381433
ISBN-13 : 1782381430
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis The Armenian Genocide by : Wolfgang Gust

Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Overview of the Armenian Genocide -- Bibliography -- Notes On Using the Documents -- The Documents -- Glossary -- Index

Justifying Genocide

Justifying Genocide
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 471
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ISBN-10 : 9780674915176
ISBN-13 : 0674915178
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Justifying Genocide by : Stefan Ihrig

The Armenian Genocide and the Nazi Holocaust are often thought to be separated by a large distance in time and space. But Stefan Ihrig shows that they were much more connected than previously thought. Bismarck and then Wilhelm II staked their foreign policy on close relations with a stable Ottoman Empire. To the extent that the Armenians were restless under Ottoman rule, they were a problem for Germany too. From the 1890s onward Germany became accustomed to excusing violence against Armenians, even accepting it as a foreign policy necessity. For many Germans, the Armenians represented an explicitly racial problem and despite the Armenians’ Christianity, Germans portrayed them as the “Jews of the Orient.” As Stefan Ihrig reveals in this first comprehensive study of the subject, many Germans before World War I sympathized with the Ottomans’ longstanding repression of the Armenians and would go on to defend vigorously the Turks’ wartime program of extermination. After the war, in what Ihrig terms the “great genocide debate,” German nationalists first denied and then justified genocide in sweeping terms. The Nazis too came to see genocide as justifiable: in their version of history, the Armenian Genocide had made possible the astonishing rise of the New Turkey. Ihrig is careful to note that this connection does not imply the Armenian Genocide somehow caused the Holocaust, nor does it make Germans any less culpable. But no history of the twentieth century should ignore the deep, direct, and disturbing connections between these two crimes.

A Shameful Act

A Shameful Act
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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages : 586
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ISBN-10 : 9781466832121
ISBN-13 : 1466832126
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis A Shameful Act by : Taner Akçam

A landmark assessment of Turkish culpability in the Armenian genocide, the first history of its kind by a Turkish historian In 1915, under the cover of a world war, some one million Armenians were killed through starvation, forced marches, forced exile, and mass acts of slaughter. Although Armenians and world opinion have held the Ottoman powers responsible, Turkey has consistently rejected any claim of intentional genocide. Now, in a pioneering work of excavation, Turkish historian Taner Akçam has made extensive and unprecedented use of Ottoman and other sources to produce a scrupulous charge sheet against the Turkish authorities. The first scholar of any nationality to have mined the significant evidence—in Turkish military and court records, parliamentary minutes, letters, and eyewitness accounts—Akçam follows the chain of events leading up to the killing and then reconstructs its systematic orchestration by coordinated departments of the Ottoman state, the ruling political parties, and the military. He also probes the crucial question of how Turkey succeeded in evading responsibility, pointing to competing international interests in the region, the priorities of Turkish nationalists, and the international community's inadequate attempts to bring the perpetrators to justice. As Turkey lobbies to enter the European Union, Akçam's work becomes ever more important and relevant. Beyond its timeliness, A Shameful Act is sure to take its lasting place as a classic and necessary work on the subject.

Remembrance and Denial

Remembrance and Denial
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Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Total Pages : 332
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ISBN-10 : 081432777X
ISBN-13 : 9780814327777
Rating : 4/5 (7X Downloads)

Synopsis Remembrance and Denial by : Richard G. Hovannisian

A fresh look at the forgotten genocide of world history.

The History of the Armenian Genocide

The History of the Armenian Genocide
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 492
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ISBN-10 : 1571816666
ISBN-13 : 9781571816665
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis The History of the Armenian Genocide by : Vahakn N. Dadrian

Dadrian, a former professor at SUNY, Geneseo, currently directs a genocide study project supported by the Guggenheim Foundation. The present study analyzes the devastating wartime destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire as the cataclysmic culmination of a historical process involving the progressive Turkish decimation of the Armenians through intermittent and incremental massacres. In addition to the excellent general bibliography there is an annotated bibliography of selected books used in the study. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey

The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey
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Publisher : University of Utah Press
Total Pages : 385
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ISBN-10 : 9780874808490
ISBN-13 : 0874808499
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey by : Guenter Lewy

Avoiding the sterile "was-it-genocide-or-not" debate, this book will open a new chapter in this contentious controversy and may help achieve a long-overdue reconciliation of Armenians and Turks.

The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity

The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 529
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ISBN-10 : 9780691153339
ISBN-13 : 0691153337
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity by : Taner Akçam

Introducing new evidence from more than 600 secret Ottoman documents, this book demonstrates in unprecedented detail that the Armenian Genocide and the expulsion of Greeks from the late Ottoman Empire resulted from an official effort to rid the empire of its Christian subjects. Presenting these previously inaccessible documents along with expert context and analysis, Taner Akçam's most authoritative work to date goes deep inside the bureaucratic machinery of Ottoman Turkey to show how a dying empire embraced genocide and ethnic cleansing.Although the deportation and killing of Armenians was internationally condemned in 1915 as a "crime against humanity and civilization," the Ottoman government initiated a policy of denial that is still maintained by the Turkish Republic. The case for Turkey's "official history" rests on documents from the Ottoman imperial archives, to which access has been heavily restricted until recently. It is this very source that Akçam now uses to overturn the official narrative.The documents presented here attest to a late-Ottoman policy of Turkification, the goal of which was no less than the radical demographic transformation of Anatolia. To that end, about one-third of Anatolia's 15 million people were displaced, deported, expelled, or massacred, destroying the ethno-religious diversity of an ancient cultural crossroads of East and West, and paving the way for the Turkish Republic.By uncovering the central roles played by demographic engineering and assimilation in the Armenian Genocide, this book will fundamentally change how this crime is understood and show that physical destruction is not the only aspect of the genocidal process.

Judgment At Istanbul

Judgment At Istanbul
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 376
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ISBN-10 : 9780857452863
ISBN-13 : 085745286X
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis Judgment At Istanbul by : Vahakn N. Dadrian

Turkey’s bid to join the European Union has lent new urgency to the issue of the Armenian Genocide as differing interpretations of the genocide are proving to be a major reason for the delay of the its accession. This book provides vital background information and is a prime source of legal evidence and authentic Turkish eyewitness testimony of the intent and the crime of genocide against the Armenians. After a long and painstaking effort, the authors, one an Armenian, the other a Turk, generally recognized as the foremost experts on the Armenian Genocide, have prepared a new, authoritative translation and detailed analysis of the Takvim-i Vekâyi, the official Ottoman Government record of the Turkish Military Tribunals concerning the crimes committed against the Armenians during World War I. The authors have compiled the documentation of the trial proceedings for the first time in English and situated them within their historical and legal context. These documents show that Wartime Cabinet ministers, Young Turk party leaders, and a number of others inculpated in these crimes were court-martialed by the Turkish Military Tribunals in the years immediately following World War I. Most were found guilty and received sentences ranging from prison with hard labor to death. In remarkable contrast to Nuremberg, the Turkish Military Tribunals were conducted solely on the basis of existing Ottoman domestic penal codes. This substitution of a national for an international criminal court stands in history as a unique initiative of national self-condemnation. This compilation is significantly enhanced by an extensive analysis of the historical background, political nature and legal implications of the criminal prosecution of the twentieth century’s first state-sponsored crime of genocide.

The Nation in Arms

The Nation in Arms
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 414
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ISBN-10 : UCAL:$B72397
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Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis The Nation in Arms by : Colmar Goltz (Freiherr von der)