Armenian History and the Question of Genocide
The 100th anniversary of the initiation of the Armenian Genocide offers an opportune time to review Michael Gunter's latest arguments that the mass deaths that the destruction of most of the Armenian community of the Ottoman Empire did not constitute genocide. The work under review offers neith...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2016
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2016, Volume: 30, Issue: 2, Pages: 376-378 |
| Review of: | Armenian history and the question of genocide (New York, NY [u.a.] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) (Usitalo, Steven A.)
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| Summary: | The 100th anniversary of the initiation of the Armenian Genocide offers an opportune time to review Michael Gunter's latest arguments that the mass deaths that the destruction of most of the Armenian community of the Ottoman Empire did not constitute genocide. The work under review offers neither a re-reading of the now-vast secondary literature nor a fresh study of previously misunderstood or unknown archival documentation (the author seems unequipped linguistically for the latter task). Rather, it offers yet one more return to the argument that Robert Melson aptly criticized as the “provocation thesis. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcw044 |