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Author: Ronald Grigor Suny (Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Social and Political History, Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Social and Political History, University of Michigan) ,
Fatma Müge Göçek (Associate Professor of Sociology, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan) ,
Norman M. Naimark (Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor of East European Studies, Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor of East European Studies, Stanford University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 23.60cm
, Height: 4.10cm
, Length: 16.00cm
Weight: 0.739kg
ISBN: 9780195393743
ISBN 10: 0195393740
Pages: 464
Publication Date: 10 March 2011
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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<br> Nearly a century on from the attempted Ottoman destruction of the Armenians, Turkish politics of denial, on the one hand, and an Armenian mythic representation of a singular Turkish guilt, on the other, have repeatedly sabotaged chances for dialogue. Yet in this book a group of leading historians from both sides of the divide, and beyond, demonstrate that the reality of genocide can be examined in its multi-causal dimensions not only without partisanship but in recognition of a shared history. A Question of Genocide can be read as a breakthrough historical study providing a contextualized, nuanced yet sensitive set of interpretations of an Armenian-but also wider Ottoman- tragedy. Equally, however, it may come to be remembered as a timely intervention on the path to reconciliation between post-Ottoman peoples. -Mark Levene, University of Southampton <br><p><br> Although the Armenian genocide is probably the clearest case of that crime apart from the Holocaust, for political reaso
<br> As a scholarly addition to the understanding of the Armenian genocide, the late Ottoman Empire, and the beginning of the Turkish Republic--A Question of Genocide succeeds. --H-Net<p><br> Nearly a century on from the attempted Ottoman destruction of the Armenians, Turkish politics of denial, on the one hand, and an Armenian mythic representation of a singular Turkish guilt, on the other, have repeatedly sabotaged chances for dialogue. Yet in this book a group of leading historians from both sides of the divide, and beyond, demonstrate that the reality of genocide can be examined in its multi-causal dimensions not only without partisanship but in recognition of a shared history. A Question of Genocide can be read as a breakthrough historical study providing a contextualized, nuanced yet sensitive set of interpretations of an Armenian-but also wider Ottoman- tragedy. Equally, however, it may come to be remembered as a timely intervention on the path to reconciliation between post-Ot
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Ronald Grigor Suny is the Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Social and Political History and Director of the Eisenberg Institute of Historical Studies at the University of Michigan. Fatma Müge Göçek is Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. Norman M. Naimark is the Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor of East European Studies and Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
