1st Edition

Looking Backward, Moving Forward Confronting the Armenian Genocide

Edited By Richard G. Hovannisian Copyright 2003
310 Pages
by Routledge

310 Pages
by Routledge

301 Pages
by Routledge

The decades separating our new century from the Armenian Genocide, the prototype of modern-day nation-killings, have fundamentally changed the political composition of the region. Virtually no Armenians remain on their historic territories in what is today eastern Turkey. The Armenian people have been scattered about the world. And a small independent republic has come to replace the Armenian... Read more
1. Introduction: Confronting the Armenian Genocide, 2. Genocide: An Agenda for Action, 3. Determinants of the Armenian Genocide, 4. The United States Response to the Armenian Genocide, 5. The League of Nations and the Reclamation of Armenian Genocide Survivors, 6. Bitter-Sweet Memories: The Last Generation of Ottoman Armenians, 7. Raphael Lemkin and the Armenian Genocide, 8. The Armenian Genocide and International Law, 9. New Directions in Literary Responses to the Armenian Genocide, 10. Looking Backward and Forward: Genocide Studies and Teaching about the Armenian Genocide, 11. Reconstructing the Turkish Historiography on the Armenian Massacres and Deaths of 1915, 12. Denial and Free Speech: The Case of the Armenian Genocide, 13. Healing and Reconciliation, 14. State and Nation: Their Roles after Independence, About the Contributors, Index

Biography

Richard G. Hovannisian