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001 2014041347
003 DLC
005 20150915143853.0
008 150209s2015 njuab b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2014041347
020 $a9780691147307 (hardback : acid-free paper)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
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050 00 $aDS195.5$b.S79 2015
082 00 $a956.6/20154$223
084 $aHIS055000$aHIS037070$2bisacsh
100 1 $aSuny, Ronald Grigor.
245 10 $a"They can live in the desert but nowhere else" :$ba history of the Armenian genocide /$cRonald Grigor Suny.
264 1 $aPrinceton :$bPrinceton University Press,$c2015.
300 $axxiv, 490 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c25 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aHuman rights and crimes against humanity
520 2 $a"Starting in early 1915, the Ottoman Turks began deporting and killing hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the first major genocide of the twentieth century. By the end of the First World War, the number of Armenians in what would become Turkey had been reduced by ninety percent--more than a million people. A century later, the Armenian Genocide remains controversial but relatively unknown, overshadowed by later slaughters and the chasm separating Turkish and Armenian versions of events. In this definitive narrative history, Ronald Suny cuts through nationalist myths, propaganda, and denial to provide an unmatched account of when, how, and why the atrocities of 1915-16 were committed. As it lost territory during the war, the Ottoman Empire was becoming a more homogenous Turkic-Muslim state, but it still contained large non-Muslim communities, including the Christian Armenians. The Young Turk leaders of the empire believed that the Armenians were internal enemies secretly allied to Russia and plotting to win an independent state. Suny shows that the great majority of Armenians were in truth loyal subjects who wanted to remain in the empire. But the Young Turks, steeped in imperial anxiety and anti-Armenian bias, became convinced that the survival of the state depended on the elimination of the Armenians. Suny is the first to explore the psychological factors as well as the international and domestic events that helped lead to genocide. Drawing on archival documents and eyewitness accounts, this is an unforgettable chronicle of a cataclysm that set a tragic pattern for a century of genocide and crimes against humanity"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aEmpire -- Armenians -- Nation -- Great Powers -- Revolution -- Counterrevolution -- War -- Removal -- Genocide -- Orphaned Nation -- Conclusion: Thinking about the Unthinkable : Genocide -- Historians Look at the Armenian Genocide : A Bibliographical Discussion.
650 0 $aArmenian massacres, 1915-1923.
650 0 $aGenocide$zTurkey$xPsychological aspects$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aArmenians$zTurkey$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0 $aTurkey$xEthnic relations$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0 $aTurkey$xPolitics and government$y1909-1918.
650 0 $aWorld politics$y1900-1918.
650 7 $aHISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / Modern / 20th Century.$2bisacsh