1st Edition
Embattled Dreamlands The Politics of Contesting Armenian, Kurdish and Turkish Memory
Contents
Introduction: Fatal Ties: Armenians, Kurds And Turks
- Saving the Empire, Killing Its Subjects: Circassian And Armenian Tales
- Eternal Histories, Elusive Homelands: Eastern Turkey. Western Armenia. Northern Kurdistan.
- Mirrored Narratives: Remembering as the Nation
- Mnemonic Frontiers, Alien Homelands: The Greater Van Region, The Residing and the Expelled
- Entwined Narratives: Remembering Beyond the Nation
Conclusion: Old Nightmares, New Awakenings
Biography
David Leupold is a 2018–2019 Manoogian post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Michigan. He focuses his research on politics of memory in the post-Ottoman and post-Soviet space.
"Whether it is the politics of memory or the histoire croisée of Anatolia or deep dives into discourses, David Leupold has something important to tell us that transcends the embattled dreamlands that are at the center of this extraordinary book."
From the foreword by Ronald G. Suny, the William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Michigan
"A model of interdisciplinary scholarship that helps us understand how the intricacies of statecraft can be deployed to direct and transform historical thinking. Leupold brings a rich past back to life in this multi-layered (and impressively polyglot) study."
Bruce Grant, Professor and Chair of Anthropology, New York University
