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There have been, to date, no other contributions to the field of late Ottoman studies and Armenian studies based on an approach of the kind I take in my book.
I am not aware of any scholarly monograph or even essay that takes the Armenian Genocide as the object of a microhistorical study.
My book takes a vivid first person account and frames it in a scholarly discussion that clarifies its broader import.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Illustrations and Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction Chapter 1. The Diarist, his Environment, and the Reasons for Keeping a Diary
Chapter 2. The Deportees in the Region of Bilad al-Sham: A Race Against Time at Breakneck Speed
Chapter 3. The Circle of Salvation in Extreme Conditions: Money-Food-Connections
Chapter 4. Descriptions of the Deportees' Decline: The Deaths of Shoghagat, Hagop, Krikor, Diruhi, and Many Others
Chapter 5. From Forced Islamization to Emancipation: Two Historical Episodes and their Contradictions
Afterword Glossary
Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Vahé Tachjian received his doctorate at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. His numerous articles and books examine French colonialism, Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, and refugee issues in the Middle East. He is the project director and the chief editor of the Berlin-based Houshamdyan website, which aims to reconstruct Ottoman Armenians’ local history and life stories.
Zusammenfassung
Although research into the Armenian Genocide has grown tremendously in recent years, surprisingly little is known about the actual experiences of the genocide’s victims.
Zusatztext
"Vahe� Tachjian has written a thoughtful, nuanced and powerful study of survival." • European History Quarterly
"Vahe Tachjian and his translator have done a great service to the recovery of the historical experience of the Armenian Genocide. The immediacy of the diaries of survivors testifies to the extraordinary suffering not only of a people displaced and destroyed but also of individuals who managed to live through and record their horrendous journey into the desert. As a gifted, sensitive, and analytical scholar, Tachjian sets the events in the larger context of Ottoman policy and the Arab world and probes the sources of strength-like family and local community ties-that Armenians deployed in their desperation. These diaries preserve the 'authenticity of the moment,' the deep texture of place and time, often lost in subsequent accounts. For historians, general readers, and all those interested in the possibilities of human cruelty, the depths of human suffering, and the potential of human resilience, this book is a treasure." • Ronald Grigor Suny, William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History and Political Science, The University of Michigan
"This is a meticulously researched and thoughtfully articulated work. It sheds new light on the situation in the Middle East, especially Syria, during World War I, and adds to our understanding of the progressive dehumanization of genocide victims." • Vahram Shemmassian, California State University, Northridge
