The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924 by Morris, Benny

The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924

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The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924 by Morris, Benny

The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924

$45.30

The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924

$45.30
Author: Benny Morris
Format: Paperback
Language: English

A Financial Times Book of the Year
A Foreign Affairs Book of the Year
A Spectator Book of the Year

"A landmark contribution to the study of these epochal events."
--Times Literary Supplement

"Brilliantly researched and written...casts a careful eye upon the ghastly events that took place in the final decades of the Ottoman empire, when its rulers decided to annihilate their Christian subjects...Hitler and the Nazis gleaned lessons from this genocide that they then applied to their own efforts to extirpate Jews."
--Jacob Heilbrun, The Spectator

Between 1894 and 1924, three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region's Christian minorities. By 1924, the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks, once nearly a quarter of the population, had been reduced to 2 percent. Most historians have treated these waves as distinct, isolated events, and successive Turkish governments presented them as an unfortunate sequence of accidents. The Thirty-Year Genocide is the first account to show that all three were actually part of a single, continuing, and intentional effort to wipe out Anatolia's Christian population. Despite the dramatic swing from the Islamizing autocracy of the sultan to the secularizing republicanism of the post-World War I period, the nation's annihilationist policies were remarkably constant, with continual recourse to premeditated mass killing, homicidal deportation, forced conversion, and mass rape. And one thing more was a constant: the rallying cry of jihad. While not justified under the teachings of Islam, the killing of two million Christians was effected through the calculated exhortation of the Turks to create a pure Muslim nation.

"A subtle diagnosis of why, at particular moments over a span of three decades, Ottoman rulers and their successors unleashed torrents of suffering."
--Bruce Clark, New York Times Book Review

Author: Benny Morris, Dror Ze'evi
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 05/04/2021
Pages: 672
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 2.00d
ISBN: 9780674251434

About the Author
Morris, Benny: - Benny Morris, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, has published books about the history of the Zionist-Arab conflict. He has also written about the conflict in the New York Review of Books, New York Times, New Republic, and The Guardian.Ze'evi, Dror: - Dror Ze'evi, Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, has published several books on Ottoman and Middle Eastern history.

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