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050 00 $aDS195.5$b.G72 1996
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100 1 $aGraber, G. S.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77008169
245 10 $aCaravans to oblivion :$bthe Armenian Genocide, 1915 /$cG.S. Graber ; foreword by Roger W. Smith.
260 $aNew York :$bJ. Wiley,$c[1996], ©1996.
300 $axiii, 210 pages :$billustrations, map ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 201-202) and index.
520 $aAcclaimed author and historian G. S. Graber has crafted a searing narrative of "the forgotten genocide." Using newly available sources, Graber offers definitive proof - denied even today by the Turkish government - that there was nothing less than a centrally organized government attempt to systematically eliminate the Armenian population in 1915.
520 8 $aPlacing the events of this effort within a broader historical context, the author brings insight and perspective to the political, economic, and cultural upheaval that led to the murder of over one million Armenian men, women, and children. Firsthand accounts recall the climate that ignited the flames of anti-Armenian sentiment as the Ottoman Empire collapsed and a new leadership emerged.
520 8 $aThe political party of the Young Turks, Ittihad ve Teraki (the Turkish Committee of Union and Progress), espoused the notion of Turanism, a mythic glorification of Turkish ethnic identity, and was devoted to restoring Turkey's shattered national pride. And even though Armenians had distinguished themselves as productive and loyal citizens in times of peace and able-bodied soldiers in times of war, they were now branded as traitorous enemies, destroying Turkey from within.
520 8 $a.
520 8 $aThe tragic fate of the Armenian people would be sealed by the political maneuvering of foreign powers eager to capitalize on the fall of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Graber examines how and why the West - principally France and Great Britain - was eager to look the other way. Following a pattern that the engineers of modern genocide would repeat time and time again, the Turks systematically gathered Armenian men and used them as slave labor before executing them en masse.
520 8 $aThe women and children were then packed into caravans for "relocation." Most would die along the way from disease and exposure. Those who survived would be shot on some arid plain, which would become their final destination.
520 8 $a. The slaughter of the Armenians, and the diplomatic backsliding that precipitated it, would serve as an all-too-efficient blueprint. In the twentieth century, genocides decimated over 119 million people worldwide - 84 million more than the number who died in both world wars and all the revolutions and civil wars fought in this century combined. More than a compelling chronicle, Caravans to Oblivion offers chilling insight into how genocide happens.
650 0 $aArmenian Genocide, 1915-1923.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85007296
852 00 $bglx$hDS195.5$i.G72 1996