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Crime of numbers : the role of statistics in the Armenian question (1878-1918) / Fuat Dündar.
- Title
- Crime of numbers : the role of statistics in the Armenian question (1878-1918) / Fuat Dündar.
- Author
- Dündar, Fuat, 1971-
- Publication
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c2010.
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- Description
- xiv, 238 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Diplomacy and statistics : the emergence of the Armenian question (1878-1913). 1st period : the Congress of Berlin and the emergence of the Armenian question, 1878. "Sharing the state" : the domestic significance of statistics in the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman censuses of 1831, 1844, 1881, and 1905. The transition from a "millet" system to a representative system. The representative system and the extraordinary councils of 1845. The 1876 Constitution and parliamentarianism. The role of statistics in determining the percentage of non-Muslims in the state apparatus : police, gendarmerie, justice, etc. 2nd period : the 1895 memorandum. The CUP and the Armenian question. Unionist turkification policy. Unionist statistical survey. The elections of 1908, 1912, 1914. The election of general councils. 3rd period : the reform of the six vilayets in 1914 : "Vilayat-i Sarkiyye Islahati" (Reform of the Oriental provinces). War, massacre, and statistics (1914-1918) : the "definitive solution" of the Armenian question. Political persecution. Deportation, the Suez Canal Operation and the chase of deserters in Zeytun. The topography and climatic character of the Zor Region. The awareness of Talat Pasha of the deadly character of Zor. Massacres : the Van resistance/rebellion and further deportations. May 9, 1915 : command for the evacuation of Cilicia and the border regions. Condemnation of massacres by the Allied Powers. Policy of settlement in formerly Armenian villages. The distribution of Armenian properties and "the abandoned property commissions". June 21, 1915 : order to deport "all Armenians, without exception". July 20, 1915 : secret order concerning counting and mapping. Counting Armenians. Mapping Armenians. Dispersing Armenians according to the principle of 10%, 5%, and 2%. Adjusting the principle of 5% in Anatolia : the numerical "monitoring" of Armenians. Military and artisan families ; Protestants and Catholics; abandoned women and children. Armenian converts
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Statistics
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Diplomacy and statistics : the emergence of the Armenian question (1878-1913). First period : the Congress of Berlin and the emergence of the Armenian question, 1878 -- Second period : the 1895 memorandum -- Third period : "vilayat-i şarkiyye islahatı," reform of the oriental provinces, in 1914 -- War, massacre, and statistics (1914-1918) : the "definitive solution" of the Armenian question. Political persecution -- Deportation, the Suez Canal Operation and the persecution of deserters in Zeytun -- Massacres : the Van resistance/rebellion and further deportations -- July 20, 1915 : secret order concerning counting and mapping -- Dispersing Armenians according to the principle of 2%, 5%, and 10% -- Photographing Armenians, covering the massacre : the construction of an official ideology -- The number in the crime : counting the Armenian dead -- Some remarks.
- ISBN
- 9781412811002 (alk. paper)
- 1412811007 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2010001657
- OCLC
- 503594590
- SCSB-10622750
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library