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Record Nr.

UNISA996461453903316

Autore

AKÇAM, Taner <1953- >

Titolo

The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity : The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire / Taner Akçam

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 2012

ISBN

9781400841844

Descrizione fisica

Testo elettronico (PDF) (528 p.)

Collana

Human rights and crimes against humanity

Disciplina

956.62

Soggetti

Questione armena

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Risorsa elettronica

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

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 with expert context and analysis, Taner Akçam's most authoritative work to date goes deep inside the bureaucratic machinery of Ottoman Turkey to show how a dying empire embraced genocide and ethnic cleansing.   Although the deportation and killing of Armen