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Autore |
Akcam Taner <1953-> |
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Titolo |
The Young Turks' crime against humanity : the Armenian genocide and ethnic cleansing in the Ottoman Empire / / Taner Akcam |
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Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, c2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-49463-8 |
9786613589866 |
1-4008-4184-4 |
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Edizione |
[Course Book] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (528 p.) |
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Collana |
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Human rights and crimes against humanity |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Armenian massacres, 1915-1923 |
Armenian question |
Genocide - Turkey |
Armenians - Turkey - History - 20th century |
Turkey Ethnic relations History 20th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Ottoman sources and the question of their being purged -- The plan for the homogenization of Anatolia -- The aftermath of the Balkan wars and the "emptying" of eastern Thrace and the Aegean littoral in 1913-14 -- The transformation of Ottoman politics toward the Ottoman Greeks during the First World War -- The initial phase of anti-Armenian policy -- Final steps in the decision-making process -- Interior Ministry documents and the intent to annihilate -- Demographic policy and the annihilation of the Armenians -- Assimilation : the conversion and forced marriage of Christian children -- The question of confiscated Armenian property -- Some official denialist arguments of the Turkish state and documents from the Ottoman Interior Ministry -- Toward a conclusion. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Introducing new evidence from more than 600 secret Ottoman documents, this book demonstrates in unprecedented detail that the Armenian Genocide and the expulsion of Greeks from the late Ottoman Empire resulted from an official effort to rid the empire of its Christian subjects. Presenting these previously inaccessible documents along |
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