Österreichs Dilemma 1915: Türken oder Armenier? İnanç Atılgan (Klagenfurt, Austria: Wieser Verlag, 2008), 261 pp., €18.80Sorrowful Shores: Violence, Ethnicity, and the End of the Ottoman Empire, 1912–1923, Ryan Gingeras (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), 272 pp., 99.00, Kindle edition 76.77
The gradual but steady collapse of the Ottoman Empire between 1912 and 1923 witnessed war, paramilitarism, occupation, forced population transfer, massacres, and genocide—violence that engulfed millions. Students of this unhappy time operate in a charged moral and political environment; several nati...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2010
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 24, Issue: 2, Pages: 316-321 |
| Review of: | Österreichs Dilemma 1915 (Klagenfurt : Wieser, 2008) (Üngör, Uğur Ümit)
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| Summary: | The gradual but steady collapse of the Ottoman Empire between 1912 and 1923 witnessed war, paramilitarism, occupation, forced population transfer, massacres, and genocide—violence that engulfed millions. Students of this unhappy time operate in a charged moral and political environment; several nation-states derive portions of their national myths from the period. Colleagues venturing into the historiography are to be commended for their courage. Given the field's politics and polemics, the quality requirements for scholarship must be set high. In several respects the titles under review represent the most effective and the most disappointing of current work on the Ottoman imperial apocalypse, worlds apart in approach, coverage, argumentation, and overall quality. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcq043 |