The Armenians : past and present in the making of national identity / edited by Edmund Herzig and Marina Kurkchiyan.

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Armenia and the armenians / Marina Kurkchiyan and Edmund Herzig -- Early armenian civilization / James R. Russell -- Christianity to modernity / Boghos Levon Zekiyan -- Into the modern age, 1800-1913 / Aram Arkun -- Genocide and independence, 1914-21 / Richard G. Hovannisian -- Soviet Armenia, 1921-91 / Ronald Grigor Suny -- Armenians in diaspora / Susan P. Pattie -- Karabagh conflict / Marina Kurkchiyan -- Politics in independent Armenia / Edmunc Herzig -- Media and democracy in Armenia / Mark Grigorian -- Economic and social development / Astghik Mirzakhanyan -- Society in transition / Marina Kurkchiyan -- Homeland-diaspora relations and identity differences / Razmik Panossian.

"The Armenians considers how the Armenian people have constructed their identity through the accumulation of historical experience and shared collective memory. The book takes the reader through the complex and often bloody historical events that the people of Armenia have experienced and tracks the evolution of their culture and politics up to their current situation as a small post-communist country poised between Europe and the Middle East and linked to a kaleidoscope of emigrant Armenian communities spread across the globe."

"The Armenians provides a comprehensive introduction to both the historical forces and recent social and political developments that have shaped today's Armenian people. With contributions from leading Armenian, American and European specialists, it sets out the themes and issues of contemporary research in the history and social science of this distinctive people."--Jacket.

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