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The Relationship Between Turks And Armenians Leading Up To And During The Great War, Kutay Agardici
The Relationship Between Turks And Armenians Leading Up To And During The Great War, Kutay Agardici
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This paper examines the long-standing debate over the events that transpired during the late Ottoman Empire between local Armenians and their predominately Muslim neighbors as well as the government. The term, “Armenian Genocide” has been used often to describe these tragic events. My writing goes into depth regarding the background history of this term. I write about the narrative of what happened between the two major groups during the late 19th and early 20th centuries as told by multiple different scholars. Narratives included are of Abdul Hamid II’s reign, the political parties created by Armenians in order for protest, the …
Migration, Colonialism, And Belonging: Tunisians Around The First World War, 1911-1925, Chris J. Rominger
Migration, Colonialism, And Belonging: Tunisians Around The First World War, 1911-1925, Chris J. Rominger
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This dissertation analyzes the little-examined transnational experiences of ordinary North Africans around the First World War, demonstrating how the war catalyzed a wide and unexpected range of concepts of political and social belonging. With the Mediterranean once again the site of massive migration provoked by war and economic inequality, scholars and commentators have begun to revisit the First World War’s legacy in the Arab world. Yet much work focuses on the emergence of Arab nationalism or on the diplomatic folly of the European victors. My research confronts scholarly assumptions about the temporal and geographic boundaries of the First World War …