The Armenians : from kings and priests to merchants and commissars /
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| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | New York : Columbia University Press, [2006] |
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| Retention: | Retained for Eastern Academic Scholars' Trust (EAST) http://eastlibraries.org/retained-materials |
Table of Contents:
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- Theoretical considerations and definitions
- 2. The Initial Building Blocks: From the 'Beginning of Time' to the 17th Century
- Myths, kings, Christianity and the Ethnie from Noah to Movses Khorenatsi The next thousand years...
- 3. Merchants, Diasporan Communities, and Liberation Attempst: the 17th to the 19th Century
- Preparing the Groundwork, I: Merchant communities and diasporan centers
- Preparing the Groundwork, II: The Mkhitarist brotherhood
- Preparing the Groundwork, III: Early attempts at liberation and Russian rule
- 4. The Multilocal Awakening: The Consolidation and Radicalisation of Colletive Identity in the 19th Century
- The Multilocal Argument-Language-Literary Culture-Political Ideology
- 5. Revolutionary Parties and Genocide, Independence and Sovietisation: Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
- Nationalism through others: reliance on external forces
- The 'religious' dimension in secular nationlism
- Political and revolutionary organisations
- Revolutionary activities
- The genocide
- The independent republic and sovietisation
- 6. Differing Identities: Soviet Armenians, Diaspora Armenians, 1921-87
- Dynamics in Soviet Armenia
- Creating a diasporan national identity
- 7. Strengthening National Identity, Soviet style, 1921-87
- 1965: A turning point
- The key factos and mechanisms in building national identity
- Repatriation and formal Armenia-diaspora relations
- Stagnation and dissatisfaction
- Ideology as a game
- 8. Conclusion: a Multilocal Nation Continues
- Bibliography
- Index