Armenia : political and ethnic boundaries, 1878-1948   

• Product Details

  Product #

  2162497YO

  Author(s)

  Burdett, Anita L.P.

  City

  - 

  Country

  United Kingdom 

  Language

  English 

  ISBN - Print Edition

  9781852079550 

  ISBN - Digital Edition

  - 

  Year - Print Edition

  1998 

  Year - Digital Edition

  - 

  Publisher - Print Edition

  Archive Editions

  Publisher - Digital Edition

  -  

  Platform

  - 

  Subject

  History, 19th Century and Earlier

  Subject

  History, 20th-21st Centuries

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Burdett, Anita L.P.

  Publisher

  Archive Editions  

• Description

  This collection of documents and maps provides scholars with an independent research publication whose primary aim is to illustrate key events, using material from British government archives, as markers in defining Armenian territory. These 70 years are crucial in the formation of the boundaries of what now constitutes the state of Armenia. The "Armenian Question" came under international scrutiny with the rise of modern nationalism in the Armenian communities living in the Ottoman and Russian empires. Borders had always shifted to and fro on the territory inhabited by Armenians. What changed from the 19th century onwards was that the Armenians - despite being militarily and politically weak - now tried to set a political agenda of their own (ultimately, the creation of an independent Armenian state encompassing a large part of what they considered to be their historical homeland) and to gain the maximum from the rivalry of the Great Powers in Anatolia and the Transcaucasus.