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The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province

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Availability:In StockContributor:Ümit KurtPublish date:2021-04-13Pages:400
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harvard University PressISBN-13:9780674247949ISBN-10:674247949UPC:9780674247949Book Category:History, Political Science, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:Middle East, Genocide & War Crimes, Economic HistoryBook Topic:Turkey & Ottoman EmpireSize:9.30 x 6.10 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.8012Product ID:SC7EE0BDRG

A Turk's discovery that Armenians once thrived in his hometown leads to a groundbreaking investigation into the local dynamics of genocide.

mit Kurt, born and raised in Gaziantep, Turkey, was astonished to learn that his hometown once had a large and active Armenian community. The Armenian presence in Aintab, the city's name during the Ottoman period, had not only been destroyed--it had been replaced. To every appearance, Gaziantep was a typical Turkish city.

Kurt digs into the details of the Armenian dispossession that produced the homogeneously Turkish city in which he grew up. In particular, he examines the population that gained from ethnic cleansing. Records of land confiscation and population transfer demonstrate just how much new wealth became available when the prosperous Armenians--who were active in manufacturing, agricultural production, and trade--were ejected. Although the official rationale for the removal of the Armenians was that the group posed a threat of rebellion, Kurt shows that the prospect of material gain was a key motivator of support for the Armenian genocide among the local Muslim gentry and the Turkish public. Those who benefited most--provincial elites, wealthy landowners, state officials, and merchants who accumulated Armenian capital--in turn financed the nationalist movement that brought the modern Turkish republic into being. The economic elite of Aintab was thus reconstituted along both ethnic and political lines.

The Armenians of Aintab draws on primary sources from Armenian, Ottoman, Turkish, British, and French archives, as well as memoirs, personal papers, oral accounts, and newly discovered property-liquidation records. Together they provide an invaluable account of genocide at ground level.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harvard University PressISBN-13:9780674247949ISBN-10:674247949UPC:9780674247949Book Category:History, Political Science, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:Middle East, Genocide & War Crimes, Economic HistoryBook Topic:Turkey & Ottoman EmpireSize:9.30 x 6.10 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.8012Product ID:SC7EE0BDRG
Kurt, Ümit: - Ümit Kurt is Polonsky Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and an Australian Research Council Fellow. He is author of several books in Turkish and English, including The Spirit of the Laws: The Plunder of Wealth in the Armenian Genocide.
Publisher: Harvard University Press

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