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The Armenian People From Ancient to Modern Times, Volume II: Foreign Dominion to Statehood: The Fifteenth Century to the Twentieth Century

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There are some good essays in this book. But if you want a textbook/intro, George Bournoutian's much more reasonably priced book is the one to buy. On the other hand, if you want scholarly essays, you're going to have to pick and choose between this book and a few others, because the quality is uneven.

This book is a grossly falsified Armenian Studies Book. This author and his close associates, which include Ronald Suny, James Russell, Peter Cowe, Alina Ayvazian, and Simon Payaslian, are promoting the False Armenological School in the United States which corrupts and distorts Armenian history and culture parallel to the Turkish design. They make numerous false claims about Armenian History. To note a few: They claim that the Armenian people are colonists and newcomers to the Historic Armenian Highland, arriving only in the 6th Century BC to destroy the Urartians. Complete nonsense! The Armenians are considered the descendents of Urartu and have been in that region thousands of years longer than this book claims! It is further mentioned that the Armenians of today are the product of intermingling of different ethnic groups! Absolutly ridiculous. More nonsense is their belief that Karabakh historically belongs to Azerbaijan as they believe the Turkish/Azeri myth that Azeris were the direct descendents of the Caucasian Albanians! The Ancestors of todays Azeri Turks were a Turkic speaking tribe that began their invasion of the Caucasus from Central Asia only in the 11th Century. These are just a few to mention...

Do yourself a favor and don't study this corrupt version of Armenian history that has been modified to please the Turkish government and cause.

The National Academy of the Republic of Armenia (Department of Armenology and Social Sciences) expressed its serious disappointment regarding such intentional falsifications found in THIS history book! It further emphasized that the continuous usage of such a textbook is harmful for students studying Armenian history. April 7, 2009.

The sheer volume of intellectual dishonesty within the pages of this book is unbelievable. The author should be ashamed of himself for falsifying factual information. It is similar to proving that the world is flat despite all the contrary evidence.


For any comments or questions please email Helmut Fien, PhD or Vahan Setyan, MS., PhD at setyan@CelsuInstitute.org, with subject heading - Historicity.