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Author Sjoberg, Erik, author.

Title The making of the Greek genocide : contested memories of the Ottoman Greek catastrophe / Erik Sjoberg.

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn Books, [2017]
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 255 pages).
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Series War and genocide ; volume 23
War and genocide ; v. 23.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-250) and index.
Contents Introduction: Cosmopolitan memory and the Greek genocide narrative -- Ottoman twilight: the background in Anatolia -- "Right to memory": from catastrophe to the politics of identity -- Nationalizing genocide: the recognition process in Greece -- The pain of others: empathy and the problematic comparison -- Becoming cosmopolitan: the Americanized genocide -- "Three genocides, one recognition": the "Christian holocaust" -- Conclusion.
Summary "During and after World War I, over one million Ottoman Greeks were expelled from Turkey, a watershed moment in Greek history that resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths. And while few dispute the expulsion's tragic scope, it remains the subject of fierce controversy, as activists have fought for international recognition of an atrocity they consider comparable to the Armenian genocide. This book provides a much-needed analysis of the Greek genocide as cultural trauma. Neither taking the genocide narrative for granted nor dismissing it outright, Erik Sjöberg instead recounts how it emerged as a meaningful but contested collective memory with both nationalist and cosmopolitan dimensions."-- Back cover.
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Subject Greeks -- Turkey -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Greeks.
Turkey.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Greeks -- Turkey -- History -- 20th century.
History.
Greeks -- Turkey -- Ethnic identity.
Ethnicity.
Genocide -- Turkey -- History -- 20th century.
Genocide.
Collective memory -- Greece.
Collective memory.
Greece.
Turkey -- Politics and government -- 1909-
Chronological Term 1909-
Subject HISTORY / Europe / Greece.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes.
Greeks -- Ethnic identity.
Greeks -- Politics and government.
Chronological Term Since 1900
Genre/Form History.
Added Title Contested memories of the Ottoman Greek catastrophe
Other Form: Print version: 9781785333262
ISBN 1785333267 (electronic book)
9781785333262 (electronic book)
9781785333255
1785333259