The Armenian Genocide

Author : Vahakn N. Dadrian
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 1571816666

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The History of the Armenian Genocide by Vahakn N. Dadrian Pdf

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

Author : Vahakn N. Dadrian,Taner Akçam
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857452863

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Judgment At Istanbul by Vahakn N. Dadrian,Taner Akçam Pdf

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.

Author : Ronald Grigor Suny
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400865581

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"They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else" by Ronald Grigor Suny Pdf

A definitive history of the 20th century's first major genocide on its 100th anniversary Starting in early 1915, the Ottoman Turks began deporting and killing hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the first major genocide of the twentieth century. By the end of the First World War, the number of Armenians in what would become Turkey had been reduced by 90 percent—more than a million people. A century later, the Armenian Genocide remains controversial but relatively unknown, overshadowed by later slaughters and the chasm separating Turkish and Armenian interpretations of events. In this definitive narrative history, Ronald Suny cuts through nationalist myths, propaganda, and denial to provide an unmatched account of when, how, and why the atrocities of 1915–16 were committed. Drawing on archival documents and eyewitness accounts, this is an unforgettable chronicle of a cataclysm that set a tragic pattern for a century of genocide and crimes against humanity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Facing History & Ourselves National Foundation, Incorporated
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923
ISBN : UOM:39076002824105

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Crimes Against Humanity and Civilization by Anonim Pdf

Author : Guenter Lewy
Publisher : University of Utah Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780874808490

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The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey by Guenter Lewy Pdf

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.

Author : Wolfgang Gust
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782381433

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The Armenian Genocide by Wolfgang Gust Pdf

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

Author : Richard G. Hovannisian
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 081432777X

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Remembrance and Denial by Richard G. Hovannisian Pdf

A fresh look at the forgotten genocide of world history.

Author : Richard G. Hovannisian
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 1412806194

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The Armenian Genocide by Richard G. Hovannisian Pdf

World War I was a watershed, a defining moment, in Armenian history. Its effects were unprecedented in that it resulted in what no other war, invasion, or occupation had achieved in three thousand years of identifiable Armenian existence. This calamity was the physical elimination of the Armenian people and most of the evidence of their ever having lived on the great Armenian Plateau, to which the perpetrator side soon gave the new name of Eastern Anatolia. The bearers of an impressive martial and cultural history, the Armenians had also known repeated trials and tribulations, waves of massacre, captivity, and exile, but even in the darkest of times there had always been enough remaining to revive, rebuild, and go forward. This third volume in a series edited by Richard Hovannisian, the dean of Armenian historians, provides a unique fusion of the history, philosophy, literature, art, music, and educational aspects of the Armenian experience. It further provides a rich storehouse of information on comparative dimensions of the Armenian genocide in relation to the Assyrian, Greek and Jewish situations, and beyond that, paradoxes in American and French policy responses to the Armenian genocides. The volume concludes with a trio of essays concerning fundamental questions of historiography and politics that either make possible or can inhibit reconciliation of ancient truths and righting ancient wrongs.

Author : Raymond Kévorkian
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 1539 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857730206

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The Armenian Genocide by Raymond Kévorkian Pdf

The Armenian Genocide was one of the greatest atrocities of the twentieth century, an episode in which up to 1.5 million Armenians lost their lives. In this major new history, the renowned historian Raymond Kevorkian provides an authoritative account of the origins, events and consequences of the years 1915 and 1916. He considers the role that the Armenian Genocide played in the construction of the Turkish nation state and Turkish identity, as well as exploring the ideologies of power, rule and state violence. Crucially, he examines the consequences of the violence against the Armenians, the implications of deportations and attempts to bring those who committed the atrocities to justice. Kevorkian offers a detailed and meticulous record, providing an authoritative analysis of the events and their impact upon the Armenian community itself, as well as the development of the Turkish state. This important book will serve as an indispensable resource to historians of the period, as well as those wishing to understand the history of genocidal violence more generally.

Author : Richard G. Hovannisian
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781412808910

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The Armenian Genocide in Perspective by Richard G. Hovannisian Pdf

"World War I was a watershed, a defining moment, in Armenian history. Its effects were unprecedented in that it resulted in what no other war, invasion, or occupation had achieved in three thousand years of identifiable Armenian existence. This calamity was the physical elimination of the Armenian people and most of the evidence of their ever having lived on the great Armenian Plateau, to which the perpetrator side soon gave the new name of Eastern Anatolia. The bearers of an impressive martial and cultural history, the Armenians had also known repeated trials and tribulations, waves of massacre, captivity, and exile, but even in the darkest of times there had always been enough remaining to revive, rebuild, and go forward. This third volume in a series edited by Richard Hovannisian, the dean of Armenian historians, provides a unique fusion of the history, philosophy, literature, art, music, and educational aspects of the Armenian experience. It further provides a rich storehouse of information on comparative dimensions of the Armenian genocide in relation to the Assyrian, Greek and Jewish situations, and beyond that, paradoxes in American and French policy responses to the Armenian genocides. The volume concludes with a trio of essays concerning fundamental questions of historiography and politics that either make possible or can inhibit reconciliation of ancient truths and righting ancient wrongs."--

Author : Taner Akçam,Umit Kurt
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781782386247

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The Spirit of the Laws by Taner Akçam,Umit Kurt Pdf

Pertinent to contemporary demands for reparations from Turkey is the relationship between law and property in connection with the Armenian Genocide. This book examines the confiscation of Armenian properties during the genocide and subsequent attempts to retain seized Armenian wealth. Through the close analysis of laws and treaties, it reveals that decrees issued during the genocide constitute central pillars of the Turkish system of property rights, retaining their legal validity, and although Turkey has acceded through international agreements to return Armenian properties, it continues to refuse to do so. The book demonstrates that genocides do not depend on the abolition of the legal system and elimination of rights, but that, on the contrary, the perpetrators of genocide manipulate the legal system to facilitate their plans.

Author : David Charlwood
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526729026

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Armenian Genocide by David Charlwood Pdf

This short history sheds light on the slaughter and expulsion of ethnic Armenians during WWI with stories of those who witnesses the terror firsthand. Twenty years before the start of Hitler’s Holocaust, over 1.5 million Armenians were murdered by the Turkish state. They were crammed into cattle trucks and deported to camps, shot and buried in mass graves, or force-marched to death. It was described as a crime against humanity and Turkey was condemned by Russia, France, Great Britain and the United States. But two decades later the genocide had been conveniently forgotten. Hitler justified his Polish death squads by asking in 1939: ‘Who after all is today speaking about the destruction of the Armenians?’ In Armenian Genocide, historian David Charlwood presents a gripping short history of a forgotten genocide. With vivid eyewitness accounts, this volume recalls the men and women who died, the few who survived, and the diplomats who tried to intervene.

Author : Jay Winter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139450188

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America and the Armenian Genocide of 1915 by Jay Winter Pdf

Before Rwanda and Bosnia, and before the Holocaust, the first genocide of the twentieth century happened in Turkish Armenia in 1915, when approximately one million people were killed. This volume is an account of the American response to this atrocity. The first part sets up the framework for understanding the genocide: Sir Martin Gilbert, Vahakn Dadrian and Jay Winter provide an analytical setting for nine scholarly essays examining how Americans learned of this catastrophe and how they tried to help its victims. Knowledge and compassion, though, were not enough to stop the killings. A terrible precedent was born in 1915, one which has come to haunt the United States and other Western countries throughout the twentieth century and beyond. To read the essays in this volume is chastening: the dilemmas Americans faced when confronting evil on an unprecedented scale are not very different from the dilemmas we face today.

Author : Yair Auron
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351305389

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The Banality of Indifference by Yair Auron Pdf

The genocide of Armenians by Turks during the First World War was one of the most horrendous deeds of modern times and a precursor of the genocidal acts that have marked the rest of the twentieth century. Despite the worldwide attention the atrocities received at the time, the massacre has not remained a part of the world's historical consciousness. The parallels between the Jewish and Armenian situations and the reactions of the Jewish community in Palestine (the Yishuv) to the Armenian genocide, which was muted and largely self-interested, are explored by Yair Auron. In attempting to assess and interpret these disparate reactions, Auron maintains a fairminded balance in assessing claims of altruism and self-interest, expressed in universal, not merely Jewish, terms. While not denying the uniqueness of the Holocaust, Auron carefully distinguishes it from the Armenian genocide reviewing existing theories and relating Armenian and Jewish experience to ongoing issues of politics and identity. As a groundbreaking work of comparative history, this volume will be read by Armenian area specialists, historians of Zionism and Israel, and students of genocide. Yair Auron is senior lecturer at The Open University of Israel and the Kibbutzim College of Education. He is the author, in Hebrew, of Jewish-Israeli Identity, Sensitivity to World Suffering: Genocide in the Twentieth Century, We Are All German Jews, and Jewish Radicals in France during the Sixties and Seventies (published in French as well)

Author : Captivating History
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1950924203

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The Armenian Genocide by Captivating History Pdf

During 1915 to 1923, one and a half million Armenian people were deported and killed in the most appalling ways comprehensible.