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The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924

Door Benny Morris e.a.

Categorie
Algemeen Geschiedenis
Boeknummer
#429256-XB51
Titel
The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924
Auteur
Morris, Benny & Dror Ze'evi
Boektype
Paperback
Druk
1e druk
Uitgeverij
Cambridge : Harvard University Press
Jaar van uitgave
2021
ISBN10
0674251431
ISBN13
9780674251434
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, illustrated with some photographs in b/w, small maps, 8vo.
Samenvatting
Financial Times Best History Book of the Year A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year A Spectator Book of the Year "A landmark contribution to the study of these epochal events." --Times Literary Supplement "A subtle diagnosis of why, at particular moments over a span of three decades, Ottoman rulers and their successors unleashed torrents of suffering." --Bruce Clark, New York Times Book Review "Brilliantly researched and written... Benny Morris and Dror Ze'evi cast a careful eye upon the ghastly events that took place in the final decades of the Ottoman empire, when its rulers decided to annihilate their Christian subjects." --Jacob Heilbrun, The Spectator Between 1894 and 1924, three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region's Christian ... (Lees verder)minorities, who had previously accounted for 20 percent of the population. By 1924, the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks had been reduced to 2 percent. Most historians have treated these waves as distinct, isolated events, and successive Turkish governments presented them as an unfortunate sequence of accidents. The Thirty-Year Genocide is the first account to show that all three were actually part of a single, continuing, and intentional effort to wipe out Anatolia's Christian population.
Pagina's
656
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 12,50

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