A Question of Genocide

Ronald Grigor Suny is Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Fatma Müge Göçek is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. Norman M. Naimark is Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor in East European Studies at Stanford University.

• Preface- Norman M. Naimark ; Introduction: Leaving It to the Historians-Ronald Grigor Suny and Fatma Muge Gocek ; Part I Historiographies of the Genocide ; Ch 1. Writing Genocide: The Fate of the Ottoman Armenians in Western Historiographies- Ronald Grigor Suny ; Ch 2. Reading Genocide: Turkish Historiography on the Armenian Ethnic Cleansing- Fatma Muge Gocek ; Part II On the Eve of Catastrophe ; Ch3. The Silence of the Land: Agrarian Relations, Ethnicity, and Power- Stephan H. Astourian ; Ch 4. What was Revolutionary about Armenian Political Parties in the Ottoman Empire?- Gerald J. Libaridian ; Ch 5. Non-Muslims in the Ottoman Army and the Ottoman Defeat in the Balkan War of 1912-1913- Fikret Adanir ; Ch 6. From Patriotism to Mass Murder: Dr. Mehmed Reshid (1873-1919)- Hans-Lukas Kieser ; Part III Genocide in International Context ; Ch 7. The Politics and Practice of the Russian Occupation of Armenia, 1915-February 1917- Peter Holquist ; Ch 8. Germany and the Young Turks: Revolutionaries into Statesmen- Eric D. Weitz ; Ch 9. Who Still Talked about the Extermination of the Armenians? German Talk and German Silences- Margaret Lavinia Anderson ; Part IV Genocide in Local Context ; Ch 10. Zeytun and the Commencement of the Armenian Genocide- Aram Arkun ; Ch 11. The Ottoman Treatment of the Assyrians- David Gaunt ; Ch 12. The First World War and the Development of the Armenian Genocide- Donald Bloxham ; Ch 13. Pouring a People into the Desert: The "Definitive Solution" of the Unionists to the Armenian Question- Fuat Dundar ; Part V Continuties ; Ch 14. "Turkey for the Turks": Demographic Engineering in Eastern Anatolia, 1914-1945- Ugur Umit Ungor ; Ch 15. Renewal and Silence: Unionist Policies After World War I- Erik Jan Zurcher

The collection is uniformly measured, provocative and important.