The politics of naming the Armenian genocide : language, history and "Medz Yeghern" /

"This book explores the genealogy of the concept of 'Medz Yeghern' ('Great Crime'), the Armenian term for the mass murder and ethnic cleansing of the Armenian ethno-religious group in the Ottoman Empire between the years 1915-1923. Widely accepted by historians as one of the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	MattÊ»eÌ„osean, Vardan (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London : I.B. Tauris, 2022.
Series:	Armenians in the modern and early modern world.
Subjects:	Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923. Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923 > Historiography. Historiography.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
A Note on Transliteration
Introduction: Silencing the Name
Part I Language and History
Chapter 1 Yeghern until the Late Nineteenth Century
Chapter 2 Yeghern before and after 1915
Chapter 3 Medz Yeghern and "Genocide" in Armenia and the Diaspora
Part II Politics and Language
Chapter 4 John Paul II: "From the Depths of the Metz YegheÌ?rn"
Chapter 5 Turkey: "The Denial of the Great Catastrophe"
Chapter 6 United States: From Ronald Reagan's "Genocide of the Armenians" and "Meds Yeghern"
Chapter 7 From Uruguay to the United States: on the Words of Recognition
Conclusion: Unsilencing the Name
Appendix A The Meaning of Yeghern in Scholarship
Appendix B Yeghern and "Genocide" in Memorial Inscriptions
Notes
Bibliography
Index.