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A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility by [Taner Akcam]

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"Akçam is unsparing in his evidence... Of profound importance to history--and certain to stir up nests of hornets." -- --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"Impressive achievement... Shines fresh light on exactly why and how the Ottoman Empire deported and slaughtered the Armenians." -- --The New York Times Book Review

"Magnificently researched... No scholar has mined and synthesized the Ottoman Empire's internal documents and memoirs with Akçam's assiduous skill." -- --Philadelphia Inquirer

"Moving... Tries to grapple both with the enormity of the crime and with the logic of its repression." -- --The New Yorker

"The definitive account... No future discussion of the history will be able to ignore this brilliant book." -- --Orhan Pamuk --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Starred Review. The story of the Ottoman Empire's slaughter of one million Armenians in 1915—a genocide still officially denied by the 83-year-old modern Turkish state—has been dominated by two historiographical traditions. One pictures an embattled empire, increasingly truncated by rapacious Western powers and internal nationalist movements. The other details the attempted eradication of an entire people, amid persecutions of other minorities. Part of historian Akçam's task in this clear, well-researched work is to reconcile these mutually exclusive narratives. He roots his history in an unsparing analysis of Turkish responsibility for one of the most notorious atrocities of a singularly violent century, in internal and international rivalries, and an exclusionary system of religious (Muslim) and ethnic (Turkish) superiority. With novel use of key Ottoman, European and American sources, he reveals that the mass killing of Armenians was no byproduct of WWI, as long claimed in Turkey, but a deliberate, centralized program of state-sponsored extermination. As Turkey now petitions to join the European Union, and ethnic cleansing and collective punishment continues to threaten entire populations around the globe, this groundbreaking and lucid account by a prominent Turkish scholar speaks forcefully to all. (Oct.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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  • ASIN : B00A3PJ9T0
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Books; 1st edition (August 21, 2007)
  • Publication date : August 21, 2007
  • Language : English
  • File size : 1119 KB
  • Text-to-Speech : Enabled
  • Screen Reader : Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
  • X-Ray : Not Enabled
  • Word Wise : Enabled
  • Print length : 497 pages
  • Lending : Not Enabled
  • Customer Reviews:
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