Author: Edmund SpencerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Balkan Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Turkey, Russia, the Black Sea, and Circassia
Author: Edmund SpencerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Balkan Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Turkey, Russia, the Black Sea, and Circassia
Author: Edmund Spencer (Captain.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Hidden Genocides
Author: Alexander Laban HintonPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813561647
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Why are some genocides prominently remembered while others are ignored, hidden, or denied? Consider the Turkish campaign denying the Armenian genocide, followed by the Armenian movement to recognize the violence. Similar movements are building to acknowledge other genocides that have long remained out of sight in the media, such as those against the Circassians, Greeks, Assyrians, the indigenous peoples in the Americas and Australia, and the violence that was the precursor to and the aftermath of the Holocaust. The contributors to this collection look at these cases and others from a variety of perspectives. These essays cover the extent to which our biases, our ways of knowing, our patterns of definition, our assumptions about truth, and our processes of remembering and forgetting as well as the characteristics of generational transmission, the structures of power and state ideology, and diaspora have played a role in hiding some events and not others. Noteworthy among the collection’s coverage is whether the trade in African slaves was a form of genocide and a discussion not only of Hutus brutalizing Tutsi victims in Rwanda, but of the execution of moderate Hutus as well. Hidden Genocides is a significant contribution in terms of both descriptive narratives and interpretations to the emerging subfield of critical genocide studies. Contributors: Daniel Feierstein, Donna-Lee Frieze, Krista Hegburg, Alexander Laban Hinton, Adam Jones, A. Dirk Moses, Chris M. Nunpa, Walter Richmond, Hannibal Travis, and Elisa von Joeden-Forgey
The Circassians of Turkey
Author: Caner YelbasiPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1838600183
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Turkey's Circassians were exiled to the Ottoman Empire in the wake of the Russian conquest of the Caucasus in 1864, resettling most notably in the Danubian provinces, Thessaly, Syria, Central Anatolia and the southern shores of the Sea of Marmara. As experienced veterans of the wars with Russia, many Circassians were recruited into the paramilitary groups of the late Ottoman Empire and later fought on both sides in the Turkish Civil War. Here, Caner Yelbasi reveals the complex and important role played by the Circassians of north-western Anatolia in the chaotic years after 1918. Because many of the key Circassian actors either sided initially with The Ottoman Government or later broke away from the `national' movement led by Mustafa Kemal in Ankara, official Turkish historiography frequently labelled them `traitors to the nation'. This book revises this narrative by revealing the overlapping and sometimes conflicting bonds of kinship and political loyalty that inscribed their presence in heartlands of the empire and the republic. Yelbasi shows that the Circassians played an important role in the establishment of the early republic and how the Turkification policies of the Kemalist regime in the two decades following 1918 disrupted their world. Using a wide variety of primary source material, including Ottoman and Republican archives - as well as memoirs, the press and secondary literature - this book sheds light on a minority who, unlike the Kurds or Armenians, are yet to receive scholarly attention in Turkish Studies. It will thus be a vital resource for scholars in Middle East Studies, Turkish Studies and Ottoman Studies.
The Athenaeum
Author: The Athenæum
Author: The Quarterly Review (London)
Author: Quarterly Review
Author: The Quarterly Review
Author: Dictionary of Languages
Author: Andrew DalbyPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231115681
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 1648
Book Description
This guide to the languages of the world details more than 400 languages in a clear A-Z style.