The Armenian Genocide: Cultural and Ethical Legacies

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Richard G. Hovannisian
Transaction Publishers, Dec 31, 2011 - History - 461 pages
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.
 

Contents

Chapter 1
3
Chapter 2
19
Chapter 3
27
Chapter 4
41
Part 2
63
Chapter 5
65
Chapter 6
81
Chapter 7
97
Part 4
265
Chapter 15
267
Chapter 16
275
Chapter 17
291
Chapter 18
303
Chapter 19
309
Chapter 20
325
Part 5
335

Chapter 8
121
Chapter 9
143
Chapter 10
177
Chapter 11
213
Part 3
227
Chapter 12
229
Chapter 13
239
Chapter 14
245
Chapter 21
337
Chapter 22
369
Chapter 23
389
Chapter 24
409
About the Contributors
429
Index
435
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Richard G. Hovannisian is distinguished professor of Armenian and Near Eastern history at the University of California, Los Angeles. He served as the associate director of the G.E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies from 1978 to 1995. A member of the UCLA faculty since 1962, he has organized the undergraduate and graduate programs in Armenian and Caucasian history. In 1987, Professor Hovannisian was appointed the first holder of the Armenian Educational Foundation Endowed Chair in Modern Armenian History at the UCLA. Among his many works, Hovannisian is the author of "Armenia on the Road to Independence, The Republic of Armenia (in three volumes), The Armenian Holocaus"t and he has edited and contributed to "The Armenian Image in History and Literature, The Armenian Genocide in Perspective, The Armenian Genocide: History, Politics, Ethics; The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times, "and "Remembrance and Denial: The Case of the Armenian Genocide" (1998).

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