Armenians Beyond Diaspora : Making Lebanon Their Own Hardback
by Tsolin (Leiden University) Nalbantian
Part of the Alternative Histories series
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This book argues that Armenians around the world - in the face of the Genocide, and despite the absence of an independent nation-state after World War I - developed dynamic socio-political, cultural, ideological and ecclesiastical centres. And it focuses on one such centre, Beirut, in the postcolonial 1940s and 1950s. Tsolin Nalbantian explores Armenians' discursive re-positioning within the newly independent Lebanese nation-state; the political-cultural impact (in Lebanon as well as Syria) of the 1946-8 repatriation initiative to Soviet Armenia; the 1956 Catholicos election; and the 1957 Lebanese elections and 1958 mini-civil war.
What emerges is a post-Genocide Armenian history of - principally - power, renewal and presence, rather than one of loss and absence.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:240 pages, 19 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:31/12/2019
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- ISBN:9781474458566
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:240 pages, 19 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:31/12/2019
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- ISBN:9781474458566
