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Year of the sword : the Assyrian Christian genocide : a history /
History of the mass killings of 1915 in which the Ottomans sought to extirpate the Aramaic-speaking Assyrian, Syriac and Chaldean Christians of the Middle East.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Author's Note; Introduction: A Forgotten Genocide?; Nation, people and churches; On the eve of the massacre; The genocide of 1915; Contemporary documentation; Ethnocide and extermination; Oblivion and its causes; An international issue; Renewal and memory; 1. Witnesses to Genocide; A terra incognita?; Reporting the genocide; The range of witnesses; The Paris Peace Conference, 1919; International solidarity; The national and international press: an essential intermediary; Humanitarian aid; 2. The Scenes and Acts of the Tragedy.
- A centuries-old persecutionThe first centuries; Ottoman antecedents to the 1915 massacres; 1915: historic Mesopotamia; Overview of the massacres; The invasion of Hakkari by Turco-Kurdish forces; The Syriacs; Extermination and deportation: the children of the Desert; 3. Strategy and Methodology of Eradication; Genocide and ethnocide; Lamenting a tragedy; The massacres and the United Nations; 4. After 1915: The Tragedy Continues; 1918: from Salmas and Urmia towards Hamadan and Iraq; Assyrians at arms; The Assyrian Levies; The Turkey-Iraq frontier (1925); Fleeing Turkey.
- Conclusion: Returning to the Stage of HistoryThe impact of the diaspora; Preserving memory; Iraq: homeland or safe haven?; Notes; Bibliography; Index.