They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else

″They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else″: A History of the Armenian Genocide is a 2015 book by Ronald Grigor Suny about the Armenian Genocide,published by Princeton University Press.

Suny used a statement from Talaat Pasha, as reported in U.S. Ambassador Henry Morgenthau's recollections, as the title of the book, indicating that the Armenian people are to be sent to the desert; the title was chosen to highlight the severity of the Ottoman state's actions.

Publishers Weekly stated that the work was made with a level of "detachment" even though members of Suny's family died in the genocide.

Contents

Suny used secondary sources as the material to source this book. There is no bibliography present. Edward J. Erickson wrote in The Middle East Journal that "There is nothing new in this book for scholars or for those familiar with the extant literature."

Further reading

• Park, Bill (2015-07-15). "'They can live in the desert but nowhere else': a history of the Armenian genocide. By Ronald Grigor Suny". International Affairs. 91 (4). Chatham House: 895–896. doi:10.1111/1468-2346.12366.

External links

• They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else - Princeton University Press
• ""They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide, Ronald Grigor Suny". Princeton University Press. 2015-04-16. - On Vimeo
• ""They Can Live in the Desert But Nowhere Else," Dr. Ronald Grigor Suny". National WWI Museum and Memorial. 2015-05-05. - On YouTube
• "Ronald G. Suny: "They Can Live in the Desert But Nowhere Else:" Explaining the Armenian Genocide". Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and University of Regensburg). 2016-12-19.
• . University of Michigan https://global.umich.edu/newsroom/qa-armenian-genocide-they-can-live-in-the-desert/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)