Description: The first English-language book on the history of the concentration camps of the Armenian Genocide.
Brief description: Bedross Der Matossian is Professor of Modern Middle East history and the Hymen Rosenberg Professor in Judaic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. He is the author, editor, and co-editor of seven books, including Shattered Dreams of Revolution: From Liberty to Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire (2014) and The Horrors of Adana: Revolution and Violence in the Early Twentieth Century (2022). He serves on the editorial board of journals, including the International Journal of Middle East Studies (IJMES).
Review Quotes:
"Armenian Genocide studies has avoided or neglected the topic of concentration camps. Therefore, this book provides a new lens through which to understand the horrors of 1915-1916. The period of what has become known as the second phase of the genocide - roughly after 1915, once the majority of Armenian victims had been deported to the Syrian deserts and incarcerated in camps - has not been investigated as thoroughly as in this work. As someone who has written a book on the Armenian Genocide, I learned enormous amounts and was saddened, not only by the tragic stories in this collection of excellent essays, but by the fact that I did not have this work to use in my 2015 book." --Ronald Grigor Suny, Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan, USA
"This edited volume is a tour de force that manages to produce fresh empirical insights through deep archival investigation and unique oral histories, as well as generate new analytical perspectives by taking a comparative perspective on the wretched topic of concentration camps in the Armenian Genocide." --Ugur Ümit Üngör, Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Amsterdam and the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies, the Netherlands