Description: The decades separating our new century from the Armenian Genocide, the prototype of modern-day nation-killings, have fundamentally changed the political composition of the region
Brief description:
Richard G. Hovannisian is distinguished professor of Armenian and Near Eastern history at the University of California, Los Angeles. He served as the associate director of the G.E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies from 1978 to 1995. A member of the UCLA faculty since 1962, he has organized the undergraduate and graduate programs in Armenian and Caucasian history. In 1987, Professor Hovannisian was appointed the first holder of the Armenian Educational Foundation Endowed Chair in Modern Armenian History at the UCLA. Among his many works, Hovannisian is the author of Armenia on the Road to Independence, The Republic of Armenia (in three volumes), The Armenian Holocaust and he has edited and contributed to The Armenian Image in History and Literature, The Armenian Genocide in Perspective, The Armenian Genocide: History, Politics, Ethics; The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times, and Remembrance and Denial: The Case of the Armenian Genocide (1998).
Review Quotes:
"This is an indispensable guide to the current state of scholarship on the Armenian genocide in the context of contemporary politics and international law. The essays show to what degree we have entered a new phase in scholarly and political discussions of a subject that simply refuses to go away. What until recently has been treated as an Armenian or a Turkish problem here emerges as a matter for all of us."
-Jay Winter, Yale University
"Looking Backward, Moving Forward brings the reader an up-to-date and reasoned study of the Armenian Genocide in the context of history, international law and issues that affect the ongoing trauma of the genocide for both the descendants of victims and the perpetrators. This volume, more than any other, suggests new directions in energizing both scholarly and popular understanding of this event."
-Dr. Stephen Feinstein, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Univesity of Minnesota