TY - BOOK AU - Suny,Ronald Grigor TI - "They can live in the desert but nowhere else": a history of the Armenian genocide T2 - Human rights and crimes against humanity SN - 9780691147307 AV - DS195 .S79 2015 PY - 2017/// CY - Princeton (New Jersey, USA) PB - Princeton University Press KW - Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923 KW - Genocide KW - Turkey KW - Psychological aspects KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Armenians KW - World politics KW - 1900-1918 KW - Génocide arménien, 1915-1916 KW - Politique mondiale KW - HISTORY KW - Middle East KW - Turkey & Ottoman Empire KW - bisacsh KW - Modern KW - 20th Century KW - Armenian massacres, 1915-1923 KW - cct KW - fast KW - Ethnic relations KW - Politics and government KW - Armenier KW - gnd KW - V�olkermord KW - Armenian genocide, 1915-1923 KW - nli KW - pplt KW - Ottoman Empire KW - International politics KW - Ethnic conflicts KW - Folkmordet i Armenien 1915-1923 KW - sao KW - Folkmord KW - psykologiska aspekter KW - historia KW - 1909-1918 KW - Turkiet KW - Asie Mineure KW - Relations interethniques KW - Histoire KW - 20e si�ecle KW - Empire ottoman KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - Narrative non-fiction N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Empire -- Armenians -- Nation -- Great Powers -- Revolution -- Counterrevolution -- War -- Removal -- Genocide -- Orphaned Nation -- Conclusion: Thinking about the Unthinkable : Genocide -- Historians Look at the Armenian Genocide : A Bibliographical Discussion N2 - "Starting in early 1915, the Ottoman Turks began deporting and killing hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the first major genocide of the twentieth century. By the end of the First World War, the number of Armenians in what would become Turkey had been reduced by ninety percent--more than a million people. A century later, the Armenian Genocide remains controversial but relatively unknown, overshadowed by later slaughters and the chasm separating Turkish and Armenian versions of events. In this definitive narrative history, Ronald Suny cuts through nationalist myths, propaganda, and denial to provide an unmatched account of when, how, and why the atrocities of 1915-16 were committed. As it lost territory during the war, the Ottoman Empire was becoming a more homogenous Turkic-Muslim state, but it still contained large non-Muslim communities, including the Christian Armenians. The Young Turk leaders of the empire believed that the Armenians were internal enemies secretly allied to Russia and plotting to win an independent state. Suny shows that the great majority of Armenians were in truth loyal subjects who wanted to remain in the empire. But the Young Turks, steeped in imperial anxiety and anti-Armenian bias, became convinced that the survival of the state depended on the elimination of the Armenians. Suny is the first to explore the psychological factors as well as the international and domestic events that helped lead to genocide. Drawing on archival documents and eyewitness accounts, this is an unforgettable chronicle of a cataclysm that set a tragic pattern for a century of genocide and crimes against humanity"-- UR - http://assets.press.princeton.edu/chapters/i10426.pdf UR - http://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz430213735inh.htm UR - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=46542 UR - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=47176 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.34119 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb34119 ER -