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The Spirit of the Laws: The Plunder of Wealth in the Armenian Genocide
Taner Akcam
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Description for The Spirit of the Laws: The Plunder of Wealth in the Armenian Genocide
Hardback. This book examines the confiscation of Armenian properties during the genocide and subsequent attempts to retain seized Armenian wealth. Through the close analysis of laws and treaties, it reveals that decrees issued during the genocide constitute central pillars of the Turkish system of property rights. Series: War and Genocide. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 540.
Pertinent to contemporary demands for reparations from Turkey is the relationship between law and property in connection with the Armenian Genocide. This book examines the confiscation of Armenian properties during the genocide and subsequent attempts to retain seized Armenian wealth. Through the close analysis of laws and treaties, it reveals that decrees issued during the genocide constitute central pillars of the Turkish system of property rights, retaining their legal validity, and although Turkey has acceded through international agreements to return Armenian properties, it continues to refuse to do so. The book demonstrates that genocides do not depend on the abolition of the legal system and elimination of rights, but that, on the contrary, the perpetrators of genocide manipulate the legal system to facilitate their plans.
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
War and Genocide
Condition
New
Weight
532g
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782386230
SKU
V9781782386230
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99-15
About Taner Akcam
Taner Akcam holds the Kaloosdian & Mugar Chair of Armenian Genocide Studies at Clark University. His most well-known books are A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility (Metropolitan Books, 2006); Judgment at Istanbul: The Armenian Genocide Trials, with Vahakn Dadrian (Berghahn Books, New York 2011) and 'Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire, (Princeton University Press, 2012) that in 2013 received the Middle East Studies Association's (MESA) Hourani Book Prize and was listed by Foreign Affairs as Best International Relations Books of 2012. Umit Kurt is a PhD. Candidate in the History Department of Clark University. He is the author of the Great, Hopeless Turkish Race: Fundamentals of Turkish Nationalism in the Turkish Homeland 1911-1916 (Iletisim Publishing House, 2012). He teaches history at Sabanci University in Istanbul.
Reviews for The Spirit of the Laws: The Plunder of Wealth in the Armenian Genocide
[This volume] will make an invaluable contribution to the field of genocide studies. It is meticulously researched and features superb attention to detail.
Deborah Mayersen, University of Wollongong Akcam and Kurt have written a fundamentally important book - We know that genocides are accompanied by the expropriation of the assets possessed by the targeted population - But nothing like that has been done for the Armenian Genocide - until now.
Eric Weitz, CUNY City College
Deborah Mayersen, University of Wollongong Akcam and Kurt have written a fundamentally important book - We know that genocides are accompanied by the expropriation of the assets possessed by the targeted population - But nothing like that has been done for the Armenian Genocide - until now.
Eric Weitz, CUNY City College