The Armenians: From Kings and Priests to Merchants and CommissarsThe book traces the evolution of Armenia and Armenian collective identity, including in the diaspora, from its beginnings to the eve of the Armenian nationalist movement over Gharabagh in 1988. The emphasis is on the modern era the seventeenth century onwards, including the Soviet period. Panossians overall approach is that of interpretive political and cultural history, centred around theories of national identity formation and nationalism. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
From the Beginning | 32 |
The conversion to Christianity | 42 |
Movses Khorenatsi and the writing of history | 49 |
THE NEXT THOUSAND YEARS | 57 |
The Diasporan Kingdom of Cilicia | 63 |
Merchants Diasporan Communities and Liberation | 75 |
BROTHERHOOD | 101 |
NATIONALISM | 194 |
REVOLUTIONARY ACTIVITIES | 214 |
Alliance with the Young Turks | 223 |
THE INDEPENDENT REPUBLIC AND SOVIETISATION | 242 |
Soviet Armenians Diaspora | 262 |
Modernisation and national identity | 270 |
Demographic issues and the homogenisation of Armenia | 277 |
The gap between ideology and reality | 286 |
EARLY ATTEMPTS | 109 |
The Russian conquest of Eastern Armenia | 119 |
The Consolidation | 128 |
In the west | 134 |
In the east | 142 |
In the west | 148 |
In Ottoman Armenia | 160 |
intellectuals and phases | 180 |
Revolutionary Parties and Genocide Independence | 188 |
Diasporan mobilisation | 294 |
Ideology as the directive | 300 |
A new diasporan identity and its politics | 306 |
Strengthening National Identity Soviet Style 192187 | 319 |
RELATIONS | 358 |
a Multilocal Nation Continues | 384 |
Bibliography | 395 |
Index | 437 |
Copyright | |
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The Armenians: From Kings and Priests to Merchants and Commissars Razmik Panossian Limited preview - 2006 |
The Armenians: From Kings and Priests to Merchants and Commissars Razmik Panossian No preview available - 2006 |
The Armenians: From Kings and Priests to Merchants and Commissars Razmik Panossian No preview available - 2006 |