Armenians Beyond Diaspora

Making Lebanon their Own

Tsolin Nalbantian (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2019
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-5856-6 (ISBN)

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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.

Tsolin Nalbantian is Lecturer in Modern Middle East History at Leiden University. She is co-series editor of Critical, Connected Histories (Leiden University Press) and has published articles in Mashriq & Mahjar, MESA Review of Middle East Studies and History Compass. She has written the entry ‘Armenians in the Middle East’ for the Routledge Handbook of Minorities in the Middle East (2018).

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1 - Repositioning Armenians in Newly Post-Colonial Nation-States: Lebanon and Syria, 1945/1946

Chapter 2 - The Homeland Debate, Redux: The Political-Cultural Impact of the 1946-1949 Repatriation to Soviet Armenia

Chapter 3 - Cold War, Bottom-up: The 1956 Catholicos Election

Chapter 4 - Making Armenians Lebanese: The 1957 election and the ensuing 1958 conflict

Conculsion

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	03.01.2020
Reihe/Serie	Alternative Histories: Narratives from the Middle East and Mediterranean
Zusatzinfo	19 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	510 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-4744-5856-4 / 1474458564
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-5856-6 / 9781474458566
Zustand	Neuware