The Armenians: From Kings and Priests to Merchants and Commissars

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Hurst & Company, 2006 - Armenia - 442 pages
The 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
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