From Empire to Republic: Turkish Nationalism and the Armenian Genocide

by Taner Akçam

Book Overview

Taner Ak am is one of the first Turkish academics to acknowledge and discuss openly the Armenian Genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman-Turkish government in 1915. This book discusses western political policies towards the region generally, and represents the first serious scholarly attempt to understand the Genocide from a perpetrator rather than victim perspective, and to contextualize those events within Turkey's political history. By refusing to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1842775278
• ISBN13: 9781842775271
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.5"