Opening book details…
Can I read "They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide (Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity Book 23) on EtoBox?
"They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide (Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity Book 23) by Ronald Grigor Suny is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is "They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide (Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity Book 23) about?
Starting In Early 1915, The Ottoman Turks Began Deporting And Killing Hundreds Of Thousands Of Armenians In The First Major Genocide Of The Twentieth Century. By The End Of The First World War, The Number Of Armenians In What Would Become Turkey Had Been Reduced By Ninety Percent--more Than A Million People. A Century Later, The Armenian Genocide Remains Controversial But Relatively Unknown, Overshadowed By Later Slaughters And The Chasm Separating Turkish And Armenian Versions Of Events. In This Definitive Narrative History, Ronald Suny Cuts Through Nationalist Myths, Propaganda, And Denial To Provide An Unmatched Account Of When, How, And Why The Atrocities Of 1915-16 Were Committed. As It Lost Territory During The War, The Ottoman Empire Was Becoming A More Homogenous Turkic-muslim State, But It Still Contained Large Non-muslim Communities, Including The Christian Armenians. The Young Turk Leaders Of The Empire Believed That The Armenians Were Internal Enemies Secretly Allied To Russia And Plotting To Win An Independent State. Suny Shows That The Great Majority Of Armenians Were In Truth Loyal Subjects Who Wanted To Remain In The Empire. But The Young Turks, Steeped In Imperial
Who reads "They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide (Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity Book 23)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Ronald Grigor Suny
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691147307
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- True Crime, Political Science, Crime
- Rating
- 4.33 / 5 (68 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
More by Ronald Grigor Suny
Browse all works by Ronald Grigor Suny
Similar books
- Genocide : Modern Crimes Against Humanity — Brendan January (2006)
- The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire — Taner Akçam (2012)
- Encyclopedia of Genocide & Crimes Against Humanity Vol2 — Dinah Shelton (2004)
- Stalin's Genocides (Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity) — Norman M. Naimark (2010)
- Crimes Against Humanity and Civilization : the Genocide of the Armenians — Facing History and Ourselves National Foundation (2004)
- Human Rights Module: On Crimes Against Humanity, Genocide, Other Crimes Against Human Rights, and War Crimes, Third Edition — Jordan J. Paust; M. Cherif Bassiouni; Michael P. Scharf; Leila Nadya Sadat; Jimmy Gurulé; Bruce Zagaris (2014)