War, Ethnic Cleansing and the Collapse of the Empire
Assigned Reading:
Primary Source: Extracts from Grigoris Balakian, Armenian Golgotha, translated by Peter Balakian and Aris Sevag.
Seminar Questions:
- What was the relationship between religious and national identity in this period?
- How did participation in the First World War precipitate mass violence within the Ottoman Empire?
Further Reading:
Taner Akçam, The Young Turks’ Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire (Princeton UP, 2012).
Mustafa Aksakal, The Ottoman Road to War in 1914: The Ottoman Empire and the First World War (Cambridge UP, 2008).
Isa Blumi, Ottoman Refugees, 1878-1939: Migration in a Post-Imperial World (Bloomsbury, 2013).
Fethiye Çetin, My Grandmother: An Armenian-Turkish Memoir (Verso, 2012).
Bruce Clark, Twice a Stranger: How Mass Expulsion Forged Modern Greece and Turkey (Granta, 2007).
Vahram Dadrian, To the Desert: Pages from my Diary (Gomidas Institute, 2003).
Nicholas Doumanis, Before the Nation: Muslim-Christian Coexistence and its Destruction in Late Ottoman Anatolia (Oxford UP, 2013)
Ryan Gingeras, Sorrowful Shores: Violence, Ethnicity and the End of the Ottoman Empire (Oxford UP, 2009).
Fatma Müge Göçek, Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present and Collective Violence against the Armenians, 1789-2009 (Oxford UP, 2015).
Şükrü Hanioğlu, Atatürk: An Intellectual Biography (Princeton UP, 2013).
Karnig Panian, Goodbye, Antoura: A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide (Stanford UP, 2015).
Eugene Rogan, The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, 1914-1920 (Allen Lane, 2015).
Ronald Grigor Suny, Fatma Müge Göçek and Norman Naimark, A Question of Genocide: Armenians and Turks at the End of the Ottoman Empire (Oxford UP, 2013).
Ronald Grigor Suny, The Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else: A History of the Armenian Genocide (Princeton UP, 2015).