| Description |
214 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-204) and indexes. |
| Summary |
This book provides an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the underlying causes of the World War I Armenian Genocide. It traces the genocide to the origin and history of the long-standing Turko-Armenian discord, with the massacres treated as a means to resolve the conflict between a dominant group and a vulnerable minority. The destruction of the Armenian people in the Ottoman Empire was neither an accident nor an aberration. Dadrian carefully details the calculated deliberations and the shift from Ottomanism to Turkism in the radical wing of the regime, with the act of genocide as a draconian method of resolving a lingering conflict. |
| Contents |
The liabilities of Islam in a multiethnic state organization -- The clash between democratic norms and theocratic dogmas -- Massive migrations, demography, and the Kurdish factor -- The abortiveness of Ottoman reforms -- The advent of the Abdul Hamit era and the onset of new crises -- The advent of Armenian revolutionaries and the Ottoman Turkish backlash -- Zeitoun (Süleymanlı) : an aberrant episode in the evolution of the Turko-Armenian conflict -- The eruption of empire-wide massacres : the rudiments of genocide as a method of resolving the Turko-Armenian conflict -- The outlines of a genocidal scheme : the Saloniki decision and its disclosure by dissident Ittihadists -- The twisted interconnections between Armenian military roles and the World War I Armenian Genocide -- The World War I law on deportation and the final solution formula -- The three arch-determinants of the Turko-Armenian conflict and its violent resolution -- Conclusion. |
| Subject |
Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923.
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Genocide.
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Turkey -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
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| Added Title |
Genocide |
| ISBN |
0765805596 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
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9780765805591 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
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