The making of the Greek genocide : contested memories of the Ottoman Greek catastrophe /
During and after World War I, over one million Ottoman Greeks were expelled from Turkey, a watershed moment in Greek history that resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths. And while few dispute the expulsion’s tragic scope, it remains the subject of fierce controversy, as activists have fought fo...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
[2017]
New York : Berghahn, 2017 |
| Series: | War and genocide ;
v. 23 War and genocide ; volume 23 |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Cosmopolitan memory and the Greek genocide narrative
- Ottoman twilight: the background in Anatolia
- Right to memory: from catastrophe to the politics of identity
- Nationalizing genocide: the recognition process in Greece
- The pain of others: empathy and the problematic comparison
- Becoming cosmopolitan: the Americanized genocide
- Three genocides, one recognition: the Christian holocaust
- Conclusion
- Introduction: Cosmopolitan memory and the Greek genocide narrative
- Ottoman twilight: the background in Anatolia
- "Right to memory": from catastrophe to the politics of identity
- Nationalizing genocide: the recognition process in Greece
- The pain of others: empathy and the problematic comparison
- Becoming cosmopolitan: the Americanized genocide
- "Three genocides, one recognition": the "Christian holocaust"
- Conclusion