Great catastrophe : Armenians and Turks in the shadow of genocide / Thomas De Waal.
By: De Waal, Thomas [author.]
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015Description: xi, 298 pages : illustrations, maps, portraitsContent type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780199350698Subject(s): Armenian massacres, 1915-1923 -- Influence | Memory -- Political aspects -- Armenia | Memory -- Political aspects -- Turkey | Genocide -- Political aspects -- Case studies | Armenia -- Relations -- Turkey | Turkey -- Relations -- ArmeniaDDC classification: 956.62 Summary: "The destruction of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire in 1915-16 was a brutal mass crime that prefigured other genocides in the 20th century. By various estimates, more than a million Armenians were killed and the survivors were scattered across the world. Although it is now a century old, the issue of what most of the world calls the Armenian Genocide of 1915 has not been consigned to history. It is a live and divisive political issue that mobilizes Armenians across the world, touches the identity and politics of modern Turkey, and has consumed the attention of U.S. politicians for years. Thomas de Waal looks at the changing narratives and politics of the Armenian Genocide and tells the story of recent efforts by courageous Armenians, Kurds, and Turks to come to terms with the disaster as Turkey enters a new post-Kemalist era. The book throws light not only on our understanding of Armenian-Turkish relations but also of how mass atrocities and historical tragedies shape contemporary politics"-- Provided by publisher (reduced).
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| 956.104 BEC Turkey under Erdoğan : how a country turned from democracy and the West / | 956.104092 SMI Erdogan rising : the battle for the soul of Turkey / | 956.6015 BRY The treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, 1915-1916 : | 956.62 DEW Great catastrophe : | 956.620154 QUE A question of genocide : | 956.620154 ROB An inconvenient genocide : | 956.620154 SUN "They can live in the desert but nowhere else" : |
"The destruction of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire in 1915-16 was a brutal mass crime that prefigured other genocides in the 20th century. By various estimates, more than a million Armenians were killed and the survivors were scattered across the world. Although it is now a century old, the issue of what most of the world calls the Armenian Genocide of 1915 has not been consigned to history. It is a live and divisive political issue that mobilizes Armenians across the world, touches the identity and politics of modern Turkey, and has consumed the attention of U.S. politicians for years. Thomas de Waal looks at the changing narratives and politics of the Armenian Genocide and tells the story of recent efforts by courageous Armenians, Kurds, and Turks to come to terms with the disaster as Turkey enters a new post-Kemalist era. The book throws light not only on our understanding of Armenian-Turkish relations but also of how mass atrocities and historical tragedies shape contemporary politics"-- Provided by publisher (reduced).