A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility
ISBN: Binding: Hardcover Edition: Author(s): Taner Akcam Publisher: Metropolitan Books Number of Pages: 496
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 Akam 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 evidencein Turkish military and court records parliamentary minutes letters and eyewitness accountsAkam 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 communitys inadequate attempts to bring the perpetrators to justice As Turkey lobbies to enter the European Union Akams 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
A Summer Without Dawn: An Armenian Epic (Interlink World Fiction)
ISBN: 1566568021 Binding: Paperback Edition: 1 Author(s): Agop J. Hacikyan, Jean-Yves Soucy Publisher: Interlink Pub Group Number of Pages: 548
In the summer of 1915 days after the government orders the deportation of the Armenians journalist Vartan Balian an Armenian is imprisoned by politicians hoping to silence him Soon after a daring escape he embarks on an odyssey across the vast empire in desperate search of his wife Maro and their young son Tomas whose own stories we gradually learn In the ensuing years the Balians will each confront the calamities of war as well as the secrets of the human heart
A Summer without Dawn is a compelling story about a family swept up in one of history s darkest moments and a moving portrait of a people s unbreakable will to survive
ISBN: Binding: Kindle Edition Edition: 1 Author(s): Erik Kopp Publisher: EKPublications Number of Pages: 13
A tasty collection of favorite Armenian recipes that I remember my mother making when I was growing up Includes borek dolma boorma and off course pilaf and shish kebab This brings back so many happy memories
Half of the profits from the sale of this eBook are donated to The Diocese of the Armenian Church of America
ISBN: Binding: Kindle Edition Edition: Author(s): St. Andrew Armenain Ladies Society, Veronica Sarkissian Publisher: Self Number of Pages:
Inside find a compilation of 450 recipes from scores of Armenian cooks about 300 of threm are Classic and Updated Armenian recipes The convenience of being on Kindle will keep your book clean and forever usable This book has a detailed index and also a glossary of more than 100 words which explain foreign words and cooking terms Sprinkled liberally throughout the book are Armenian historical facts and proverbs plus 38 pages of household hints
The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response
ISBN: 0060558709 Binding: Paperback Edition: Author(s): Peter Balakian Publisher: Harper Perennial Number of Pages: 528
A History of International Human Rights and Forgotten Heroes In this national bestseller the critically acclaimed author Peter Balakian brings us a riveting narrative of the massacres of the Armenians in the 1890s and of the Armenian Genocide in 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Turks Using rarely seen archival documents and remarkable first-person accounts Balakian presents the chilling history of how the Turkish government implemented the first modern genocide behind the cover of World War I And in the telling he resurrects an extraordinary lost chapter of American history
Awarded the Raphael Lemkin Prize for the best scholarly book on genocide by the Institute for Genocide Studies at John Jay College of Criminal JusticeCUNY Graduate Center
Survivors: An Oral History Of The Armenian Genocide
ISBN: 0520219562 Binding: Paperback Edition: Author(s): Donald E. Miller, Lorna Touryan Miller Publisher: University of California Press Number of Pages: 274
Between 1915 and 1923 over one million Armenians died victims of a genocidal campaign that is still denied by the Turkish government Thousands of other Armenians suffered torture brutality deportation Yet their story has received scant attention Through interviews with a hundred elderly Armenians Donald and Lorna Miller give the "forgotten genocide" the hearing it deserves Survivors raise important issues about genocide and about how people cope with traumatic experience Much here is wrenchingly painful yet it also speaks to the strength of the human spirit
The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire (Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity)
ISBN: 0691153337 Binding: Hardcover Edition: Author(s): Taner Akçam Publisher: Princeton University Press Number of Pages: 528
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 Akam'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 cleansingAlthough 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 Akam 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 RepublicBy 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
Revolution and Genocide: On the Origins of the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust
ISBN: 0226519910 Binding: Paperback Edition: Author(s): Robert Melson Publisher: University Of Chicago Press Number of Pages: 386
In a study that compares the major attempts at genocide in world history Robert Melson creates a sophisticated framework that links genocide to revolution and war He focuses on the plights of Jews after the fall of Imperial Germany and of Armenians after the fall of the Ottoman as well as attempted genocides in the Soviet Union and Cambodia He argues that genocide often is the end result of a complex process that starts when revolutionaries smash an old regime and in its wake try to construct a society that is pure according to ideological standards
The Armenian People From Ancient to Modern Times, Volume II: Foreign Dominion to Statehood: The Fifteenth Century to the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 140396422X Binding: Paperback Edition: 1st Pbk. Ed Author(s): N/A Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Number of Pages: 512
Edited by the leading history of the Republic of Armenia this is the definitive history of an extraordinary country--from its earliest foundations through the Crusades the resistance to Ottoman and Tsarist rule the collapse of the independent state its brief reemergence after World War I its subjugation by the Bolsheviks and the establishment of the new Republic in 1991 Written by the foremost experts on each period in Armenia's history these volumes are a major contribution to understanding the complexities of Transcaucasia
ISBN: 1848855613 Binding: Hardcover Edition: Author(s): Raymond Kévorkian Publisher: I. B. Tauris Number of Pages: 1008
The Armenian Genocide was one of the greatest atrocities of the twentieth century an episode in which up to 15 million Armenians lost their lives In this major new history the renowned historian Raymond Kvorkian 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 justiceKvorkian 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
