The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915–1918 (Armenian History, Society, and Culture) - Softcover

Khatchig Mouradian (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1611863945 ISBN 13: 9781611863949

Publisher: Michigan State University Press, 2021

Synopsis

The Resistance Network is the history of an underground network of humanitarians, missionaries, and diplomats in Ottoman Syria who helped save the lives of thousands during the Armenian Genocide. Khatchig Mouradian challenges depictions of Armenians as passive victims of violence and subjects of humanitarianism, demonstrating the key role they played in organizing a humanitarian resistance against the destruction of their people. Piecing together hundreds of accounts, official documents, and missionary records, Mouradian presents a social history of genocide and resistance in wartime Aleppo and a network of transit and concentration camps stretching from Bab to Ras ul-Ain and Der Zor. He ultimately argues that, despite the violent and systematic mechanisms of control and destruction in the cities, concentration camps, and massacre sites in this region, the genocide of the Armenians did not progress unhindered—unarmed resistance proved an important factor in saving countless lives.

About this title

About the Author

Khatchig Mouradian is a lecturer in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African studies at Columbia University. He is the editor of the peer-reviewed journal The Armenian Review and in 2020 was awarded a Humanities War & Peace Initiative Grant from Columbia University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Publication date: 2021
• ISBN 10: 1611863945
• ISBN 13: 9781611863949
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 262