scholarly journals Review essay: A surfeit of violence?

HISTOREIN ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Haris Exertzoglou
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Communal Relations ◽  
Late Ottoman Empire ◽  
Late Ottoman ◽  
Oxford University Press

Review article of Ayşe Ozil, <em>Orthodox Christians in the Late Ottoman Empire: A Study of Communal Relations in Anatolia</em>, London: Routledge, 2013; Nicholas Doumanis, <em>Before the Nation: Muslim–Christian Coexistence and its Destruction in the Late Ottoman Anatolia</em>, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013; Ryan Gingeras, <em>Sorrowful Shores: Violence, Ethnicity and the End of the Ottoman Empire, 1912–1923</em>, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Foundations of Human Sociality: A Review Essay

2005 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 488-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry Samuelson
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Economic Experiments ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Oxford University Press

This is a review article of Foundations of Human Sociality: Economic Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence from Fifteen Small-Scale Societies (Oxford University Press 2004) edited by Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin Camerer, Ernst Fehr, and Herbert Gintis.

The Question of Authority: Deracinating Race, Repositioning Religion, and Regenerating Gender in the History of African American Islam

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 213-227
Author(s):  
Rosemary Hicks
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
The Third ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Islam ◽  
African American Islam ◽  
Oxford University Press

A review essay devoted to Islam and the Blackamerican: Looking Toward the Third Resurrection by Sherman A. Jackson. Oxford University Press, 2005. 256 pages. Hb. $29.95/£22.50, ISBN-13: 9780195180817.

The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taner Akçam
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Armenian Genocide ◽  
Ethnic Cleansing ◽  
Turkish Republic ◽  
Young Turks ◽  
East And West ◽  
Late Ottoman Empire ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Late Ottoman

Introducing new evidence from more than 600 secret Ottoman documents, this book demonstrates in detail that the Armenian Genocide and the expulsion of Greeks from the late Ottoman Empire resulted from an official effort to rid the empire of its Christian subjects. This book goes deep inside the bureaucratic machinery of Ottoman Turkey to show how a dying empire embraced genocide and ethnic cleansing. Although the deportation and killing of Armenians was internationally condemned in 1915 as a “crime against humanity and civilization,” the Ottoman government initiated a policy of denial that is still maintained by the Turkish Republic. The case for Turkey's “official history” rests on documents from the Ottoman imperial archives, to which access has been heavily restricted until recently. It is this very source that the book now uses to overturn the official narrative. The documents presented here attest to a late-Ottoman policy of Turkification, the goal of which was no less than the radical demographic transformation of Anatolia. To that end, about one-third of Anatolia's 15 million people were displaced, deported, expelled, or massacred, destroying the ethno-religious diversity of an ancient cultural crossroads of East and West, and paving the way for the Turkish Republic. By uncovering the central roles played by demographic engineering and assimilation in the Armenian Genocide, this book will fundamentally change how this crime is understood and show that physical destruction is not the only aspect of the genocidal process.

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