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\"PhotoApril 24 marks the 103rd anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.\u00a0\u00a0Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day is held annually to recognize and mourn\u00a0more than 1.5 million victims of the Armenian Genocide, the most tragic element of Armenian history.<\/h5>\n
For a limited time, take advantage of a special 25% discount off all of our War and Genocide Series<\/span><\/a> titles by entering the code WG18 in your shopping cart. <\/span><\/h5>\n
For more information on Armenian Genocide please visit\u00a0armenian-genocide.org<\/a>.<\/h5>\n
In recognizing the significance of the occasion we would like to bring to your attention a range of Armenian Genocide\u00a0titles, including our War and Genocide Series<\/a><\/em>, which reflects a growing interest in the study of war and genocide within the framework of social and cultural history.\u00a0<\/h5>\n
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War and Genocide<\/em> Series<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n

There has been a growing interest in the study of war and genocide, not from a traditional military history perspective, but within the framework of social and cultural history. This series offers a forum for scholarly works that reflect these new approaches.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Volume 26
\nLET THEM NOT RETURN<\/a>
\nSayfo \u2013 The Genocide Against the Assyrian, Syriac, and Chaldean Christians in the Ottoman Empire
\nEdited by David Gaunt, Naures Atto, and Soner O. Barthoma<\/p>\n

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The mass killing of Ottoman Armenians is today widely recognized, both within and outside scholarly circles, as an act of genocide. What is less well known, however, is that it took place within a broader context of Ottoman violence against minority groups during and after the First World War. Among those populations decimated were the indigenous Christian Assyrians (also known as Syriacs or Chaldeans) who lived in the borderlands of present-day Turkey, Iran, and Iraq. This volume is the first scholarly edited collection focused on the Assyrian genocide, or \u201cSayfo\u201d (literally, \u201csword\u201d in Aramaic), presenting historical, psychological, anthropological, and political perspectives that shed much-needed light on a neglected historical atrocity.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:\u00a0<\/strong>Contextualizing the Sayfo in the First World War<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"Volume 25
\nDAILY LIFE IN THE ABYSS<\/a>
\nGenocide Diaries, 1915-1918
\nVah\u00e9 Tachjian<\/p>\n

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Historical research into the Armenian Genocide has grown tremendously in recent years, but much of it has focused on large-scale questions related to Ottoman policy or the scope of the killing. Consequently, surprisingly little is known about the actual experiences of the genocide\u2019s victims. Daily Life in the Abyss illuminates this aspect through the intertwined stories of two Armenian families who endured forced relocation and deprivation in and around modern-day Syria. Through analysis of diaries and other source material, it reconstructs the rhythms of daily life within an often bleak and hostile environment, in the face of a gradually disintegrating social fabric.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"Volume 21 In Paperback<\/em>
\nTHE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS<\/a>
\nThe Plunder of Wealth in the Armenian Genocide
\nTaner Ak\u00e7am and Umit Kurt
\nTranslated by Aram Arkun<\/p>\n

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Pertinent to contemporary demands for reparations from Turkey is the relationship between law and property in connection with the Armenian Genocide. This book examines the confiscation of Armenian properties during the genocide and subsequent attempts to retain seized Armenian wealth. Through the close analysis of laws and treaties, it reveals that decrees issued during the genocide constitute central pillars of the Turkish system of property rights, retaining their legal validity, and although Turkey has acceded through international agreements to return Armenian properties, it continues to refuse to do so. The book demonstrates that genocides do not depend on the abolition of the legal system and elimination of rights, but that, on the contrary, the perpetrators of genocide manipulate the legal system to facilitate their plans.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

For a full selection of titles in the series please visit series webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\"\"GENOCIDE IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE<\/a>
\nArmenians, Assyrians, and Greeks, 1913-1923
\nEdited by George N. Shirinian<\/p>\n

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The final years of the Ottoman Empire were catastrophic ones for its non-Turkish, non-Muslim minorities. From 1913 to 1923, its rulers deported, killed, or otherwise persecuted staggering numbers of citizens in an attempt to preserve \u201cTurkey for the Turks,\u201d setting a modern precedent for how a regime can commit genocide in pursuit of political ends while largely escaping accountability. While this brutal history is most widely known in the case of the Armenian genocide, few appreciate the extent to which the Empire\u2019s Assyrian and Greek subjects suffered and died under similar policies. This comprehensive volume is the first to broadly examine the genocides of the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks in comparative fashion, analyzing the similarities and differences among them and giving crucial context to present-day calls for recognition.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE<\/a>
\nEvidence from the German Foreign Office Archives, 1915-1916
\nCompiled and Edited by Wolfgang Gust
\nTranslated from the German
\nForeword by Vahakn N. Dadrian<\/p>\n

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\u00a0“This meticulously compiled work will provide historians and students with invaluable information about this lesser-known aspect of the genocide.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Choice<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1915, the Armenians were exiled from their land, and in the process of deportation 1.5 million of them were killed. The 1915-1916 annihilation of the Armenians was the archetype of modern genocide, in which a state adopts a specific scheme geared to the destruction of an identifiable group of its own citizens. Official German diplomatic documents are of great importance in understanding the genocide, as only Germany had the right to report day-by-day in secret code about the ongoing genocide. The motives, methods, and after-effects of the Armenian Genocide echoed strongly in subsequent cases of state-sponsored genocide. Studying the factors that went into the Armenian Genocide not only gives us an understanding of historical genocide, but also provides us with crucial information for the anticipation and possible prevention of future genocides.<\/p>\n

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\"\"JUDGMENT AT ISTANBUL<\/a>
\nThe Armenian Genocide Trials
\nVahakn N. Dadrian and Taner Ak\u00e7am<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis volume is the most comprehensive and analytical work to address the Armenian genocide from legal-criminal perspective to date. \u2026[It] should be regarded as an important contribution to the field of Armenian genocide studies, Ottoman legal history, and the history of War Tribunals\u2026 It provides readers with a compelling argument about the historical veracity of the Armenian genocide.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 The Cyprus Review<\/strong><\/p>\n

Turkey\u2019s bid to join the European Union has lent new urgency to the issue of the Armenian Genocide as differing interpretations of the genocide are proving to be a major reason for the delay of the its accession. This book provides vital background information and is a prime source of legal evidence and authentic Turkish eyewitness testimony of the intent and the crime of genocide against the Armenians. After a long and painstaking effort, the authors, one an Armenian, the other a Turk, generally recognized as the foremost experts on the Armenian Genocide, have prepared a new, authoritative translation and detailed analysis of the Takvim-i Vek\u00e2yi, the official Ottoman Government record of the Turkish Military Tribunals concerning the crimes committed against the Armenians during World War I. The authors have compiled the documentation of the trial proceedings for the first time in English and situated them within their historical and legal context. These documents show that Wartime Cabinet ministers, Young Turk party leaders, and a number of others inculpated in these crimes were court-martialed by the Turkish Military Tribunals in the years immediately following World War I. Most were found guilty and received sentences ranging from prison with hard labor to death. In remarkable contrast to Nuremberg, the Turkish Military Tribunals were conducted solely on the basis of existing Ottoman domestic penal codes. This substitution of a national for an international criminal court stands in history as a unique initiative of national self-condemnation. This compilation is significantly enhanced by an extensive analysis of the historical background, political nature and legal implications of the criminal prosecution of the twentieth century\u2019s first state-sponsored crime of genocide.<\/p>\n

WBUR’s Radio Boston interview with Taner Ak\u00e7am<\/a>
\nOnline oped by Taner Ak\u00e7am on Boston Globe<\/a>
\nOnline oped by Taner Ak\u00e7am on Al Jazeera<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"in paperback<\/em><\/p>\n

ON THE PATH TO GENOCIDE<\/a>
\nArmenia and Rwanda Reexamined
\nDeborah Mayersen<\/p>\n

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\u201cMayersen has written a fine text\u2026 Ultimately, Mayersen concludes that genocides are \u2018fundamentally preventable\u2019 and offers insights into prevention. The text is well organized, thoroughly researched, and brings to bear important new perspectives on genocide studies. \u2013 Highly recommended.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Choice<\/strong><\/p>\n

Why did the Armenian genocide erupt in Turkey in 1915, only seven years after the Armenian minority achieved civil equality for the first time in the history of the Ottoman Empire? How can we explain the Rwandan genocide occurring in 1994, after decades of relative peace and even cooperation between the Hutu majority and the Tutsi minority? Addressing the question of how the risk of genocide develops over time, On the Path to Genocide contributes to a better understand why genocide occurs when it does. It provides a comprehensive and comparative historical analysis of the factors that led to the 1915 Armenian genocide and the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, using fresh sources and perspectives that yield new insights into the history of the Armenian and Rwandan peoples. Finally, it also presents new research into constraints that inhibit genocide, and how they can be utilized to attempt the prevention of genocide in the future.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction:<\/a><\/strong> \u2018The Symptoms of an Explosive Situation\u2019: The Temporal Model of Genocide<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"PORTRAITS OF HOPE<\/a>
\nArmenians in the Contemporary World
\nEdited by Huberta von Voss
\nWith a Preface by Yehuda Bauer, Jerusalem<\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2026certainly a well-put together and edited compendium of Armenian socio-political and cultural essays …And it has a great deal to offer both the educated and altruistic reader alike about the passionate and fatalistic woven threads that compose Armenian life and identity today.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Armenian Weekly<\/strong><\/p>\n

Elie Wiesel called the genocide of the Armenians during the First World War \u2018the Holocaust before the Holocaust\u2019. Around one and a half million Armenians – men, women and children \u2013 were slaughtered at the time of the First World War. This book outlines some of the historical facts and consequences of the massacres but sees it as its main objective to present the Armenians to the foreign reader, their history but also their lives and achievements in the present that finds most Armenians dispersed throughout the world. 3000 years after their appearance in history, 1700 years after adopting Christianity and almost 90 years after the greatest catastrophe in their history, these 50 \u2018biographical sketches of intellectuals, artists, journalists, and others\u2026produce a complicated kaleidoscope of a divided but lively people that is trying once again, to rediscover its ethnic coherence. Armenian civilization does not consist solely of stories about a far-off past, but also of traditions and a national conscience suggestive of a future that will transcend the present.\u2019 [from the Preface]<\/p>\n

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\"\"THE HISTORY OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE<\/a>
\nEthnic Conflict from the Balkans to Anatolia to the Caucasus
\nVahakn N. Dadrian<\/p>\n

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“… marshals considerable evidence to show how the development of the Turkish-Armenian conflict escalated to the point of genocide … Dadrian makes [an] important contribution to our understanding of the dynamics of the Ottoman decision to destroy its Armenian subjects.”<\/em> \u00b7 MESA Bulletin<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Armenian Genocide, though not given such prominent treatment as the Jewish Holocaust which it precedes, still haunts the Western world and has assumed a new significance in the light of “ethnic cleansing” in Bosnia and, more recently, Darfur. This study by the most distinguished scholar of the Armenian tragedy offers an authoritative analysis by presenting it as a case study of genocide and by seeing it as an historical process in which a domestic conflict escalated and was finally consumed by global war.<\/p>\n

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Of Related Interest<\/strong><\/span>:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"POST-OTTOMAN COEXISTENCE<\/a>
\nSharing Space in the Shadow of Conflict
\nEdited by Rebecca Bryant<\/p>\n

Volume 16, Space and Place<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

Post-Ottoman Coexistence: Sharing Space in the Shadow of Conflict<\/em> edited by Rebecca Bryant<\/strong> is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License\u00a0(CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).<\/a><\/p>\n

This edition is supported by Knowledge Unlatched<\/a>. Full text<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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In Southeast Europe, the Balkans, and Middle East, scholars often refer to the \u201cpeaceful coexistence\u201d of various religious and ethnic groups under the Ottoman Empire before ethnonationalist conflicts dissolved that shared space and created legacies of division. Post-Ottoman Coexistence<\/em> interrogates ways of living together and asks what practices enabled centuries of cooperation and sharing, as well as how and when such sharing was disrupted. Contributors discuss both historical and contemporary practices of coexistence within the context of ethno-national conflict and its aftermath.<\/p>\n

Post-Ottoman Coexistence: Sharing Space in the Shadow of Conflict<\/em>\u00a0edited by\u00a0Rebecca Bryant\u00a0is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License\u00a0(CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).<\/a><\/p>\n

This edition is supported by\u00a0Knowledge Unlatched<\/a>.\u00a0Full text<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\"\"URBAN VIOLENCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST<\/a>
\nChanging Cityscapes in the Transition from Empire to Nation State
\nEdited by Ulrike Freitag, Nelida Fuccaro, Claudia Ghrawi, and Nora Lafi<\/p>\n

Volume 14, Space and Place<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2026the spatial approach of the studies in this volume provides a framework for understanding recent events. For students and researchers examining street politics and urban conflict, in the Middle East or beyond,<\/em> Urban Violence in the Middle East shows how macro level spatial context can be used to develop deeper and more nuanced understanding of micro level violence and political contestation.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Middle East Media and Book Reviews Online<\/strong><\/p>\n

Covering a period from the late eighteenth century to today, this volume explores the phenomenon of urban violence in order to unveil general developments and historical specificities in a variety of Middle Eastern contexts. By situating incidents in particular processes and conflicts, the case studies seek to counter notions of a violent Middle East in order to foster a new understanding of violence beyond that of a meaningless and destructive social and political act. Contributions explore processes sparked by the transition from empires \u2014 Ottoman and Qajar, but also European \u2014 to the formation of nation states, and the resulting changes in cityscapes throughout the region.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Urban Violence in the Middle East: Changing Cityscapes in the Transition from Empire to Nation State<\/a><\/p>\n

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JOURNAL ARTICLES<\/h5>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Staging Sassoun<\/a><\/strong><\/em>
\nMemory and Music Video in Post-Soviet Armenia<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Rik Adriaans<\/p>\n

Social Analysis<\/em><\/a>
\nThe International Journal of Anthropology<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>\u201cThe road to Golgotha\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/em>
\nRepresenting loss in postsocialist Armenia<\/strong> <\/em><\/a>by Tsypylma Darieva<\/p>\n

Focaal<\/a>
\nJournal of Global and Historical Anthropology<\/a><\/p>\n

 
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