The Armenian Genocide in PerspectiveRichard G. Hovannisian Transaction Publishers, 2009 M05 31 - 220 páginas "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."-- |
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The Historical Dimensions of | 19 |
The Turkish Genocide of Armenians 19151917 | 43 |
A Critical Inquiry | 61 |
Armenians | 85 |
What Genocide? What Holocaust? News from Turkey | 97 |
The Armenian Genocide and Patterns of Denial | 111 |
The Armenian Genocide and the Literary Imagination | 153 |
The Impact of the Genocide on West Armenian Letters | 167 |
Psychosocial Sequelae of the Armenian Genocide | 177 |
An Oral History Perspective on Responses | 187 |
About the Contributors | 205 |
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Página 8 - First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the communists and I did not speak out because I was not a communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.