Bibliography of the Armenian genocide

Bibliography of the Armenian genocide is a list of books about the Armenian genocide:

Historical overviews

Akçam, Taner. A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2007.
Akçam, Taner (2012). The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire. Princeton University Press. – [1] Archived 2017-09-06 at the Wayback Machine
Balakian, Peter. The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response. New York: HarperCollins, 2003. ISBN 0-06-019840-0
Bloxham, Donald. The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-19-927356-1
Dadrian, Vahakn (1995). The History of the Armenian Genocide: Ethnic Conflict from the Balkans to Anatolia to the Caucasus. Oxford: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-666-5.
Dadrian, Vahakn. Warrant for Genocide: Key Elements of Turko-Armenian Conflict. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 2003. ISBN 1-56000-389-8
De Waal, Thomas (2015). Great Catastrophe : Armenians and Turks in the Shadow of Genocide. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-935069-8.
Kévorkian, Raymond. The Armenian Genocide: A Complete History. London: I.B. Tauris, 2011. ISBN 978-0-85771-930-0
Suny, Ronald Grigor. "They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0-691-14730-7
Üngör, Uğur Ümit; Polatel, Mehmet (2011). Confiscation and destruction: The Young Turk Seizure of Armenian Property. New York: e Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 978-1-4411-3578-0.
Bozarslan, Hamit; Duclert, Vincent; Kévorkian, Raymond H. (2015). Comprendre le génocide des arméniens – 1915 à nos jours (in French). Tallandier. ISBN 979-10-210-0681-2.

Specific issues and comparative studies

Akçam, Taner; Kurt, Umit (2015). The Spirit of the Laws: The Plunder of Wealth in the Armenian Genocide. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-78238-624-7.
Bloxham, Donald (November 2003). "The Armenian Genocide of 1915–1916: Cumulative Radicalization and the Development of a Destruction Policy". Past & Present. 181 (181). Oxford University Press on behalf of The Past and Present Society: 141–191. doi:10.1093/past/181.1.141. JSTOR 3600788.
Bobelian, Michael. Children of Armenia: A Forgotten Genocide and the Century-Long Struggle for Justice. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009.
Dadrian, Vahakn. "Genocide as a Problem of National and International Law: The World War I Armenian Case and its Contemporary Legal Ramifications", Yale Journal of International Law, Volume 14, Number 2, 1989.
Dadrian, Vahakn. "Patterns of Twentieth Century Genocides: the Armenian, Jewish, and Rwandan Cases". Journal of Genocide Research, 2004, 6 (4), pp. 487–522.
Göçek, Fatma Müge. Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present, and Collective Violence against the Armenians, 1789–2009. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Hovannisian, Richard (ed.) The Armenian Genocide: History, Politics, Ethics. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.
Hovannisian, Richard. Remembrance and Denial: The Case of the Armenian Genocide. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998.
Hovannisian, Richard. The Armenian Genocide: Cultural and Ethical Legacies. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2007.
Hovannisian, Richard G. and Simon Payalsian (eds). Armenian Cilicia. Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers, 2008.
Mann, Michael. The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge, UP, 2004.
Melson, Robert, Revolution and Genocide: On the Origins of the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Power, Samantha. "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide. New York: Harper Perennial 2003.
Sanasarian, Eliz (1989). "Gender Distinction in the Genocide Process: A Preliminary Study of the Armenian Case". Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 4 (4): 449–461. doi:10.1093/hgs/4.4.449. PMID 20684116.
Üngör, Uğur Ümit (2011), The Making of Modern Turkey: Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913–1950, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Michelle Tusan, "Crimes against Humanity": Human Rights, the British Empire, and the Origins of the Response to the Armenian Genocide, American Hist. Rev. 119(1), 2014, pp. 47–77

Survivors' testimonies and memory

Balakian, Grigoris. Armenian Golgotha. Translated by Peter Balakian with Aris Sevag. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
Bedoukian, Kerop. Some of Us Survived: The Story of an Armenian Boy. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1978.
Hartunian, Abraham H. Neither to Laugh nor to Weep: A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide. Translated by Vartan Hartunian. Cambridge, MA: Armenian Heritage Press, 1986.
Jacobsen, Maria. Diaries of a Danish missionary: Harpoot, 1907–1919. Princeton: Gomidas Institute, 2001.
Lang, David Marshall. The Armenians: A People in Exile. London: Allen & Unwin, 1981.
Miller, Donald E. and Lorna Touryan Miller. Survivors: An Oral History of the Armenian Genocide. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
Panian, Karnig. Goodbye, Antoura: A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015.
Odian, Yervant. Accursed Years: My Exile and Return from Der Zor, 1914–1919. Translated by Ara Stepan Melkonyan. London: Taderon Press, 2009.
Svazlyan, Verzhine. The Armenian Genocide and Historical Memory. Translated by Tigran Tsulikian. Yerevan: Gitutiun Publishing House, 2004.
Tachjian, Vahé (2017). Daily Life in the Abyss: Genocide Diaries, 1915–1918. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-78533-495-5.

Regional studies

Kaiser, Hilmar (2001). At the Crossroads of Der Zor: Death, Survival, and Humanitarian Resistance in Aleppo, 1915–1917. Gomidas Institute. ISBN 978-1-903656-12-9.
Kurt, Ümit (2021). The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674247949.

Former Armenian communities

Hovannisian, Richard. Armenian Van/Vaspurakan. Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers, 2000.
Hovannisian, Richard. Armenian Baghesh/Bitlis and Taron/Mush. Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers, 2001.
Hovannisian, Richard. Armenian Karin/Erzerum. Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers, 2003.
Hovannisian, Richard. Armenian Sebastia/Sivas and Lesser Armenia. Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers, 2004.

World responses and foreign testimony

Anderson, Margaret Lavinia. "'Down in Turkey, far away': Human Rights, the Armenian Massacres, and Orientalism in Wilhelmine Germany", Journal of Modern History Volume, 79, Number 1, March 2007, pp. 80–111. in JSTOR
Barton, James L. Turkish Atrocities: Statements of American Missionaries on the Destruction of Christian Communities in Ottoman Turkey, 1915–1917. Ann Arbor: Gomidas Institute, 1997.
Toynbee, Arnold; Bryce, James (1916). Sarafian, Ara (ed.). The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, 1915–1916: Documents Presented to Viscount Grey of Falloden, Uncensored ed. Hodder and Stoughton.
Dadrian, Vahakn N. Documentation of the Armenian Genocide in Turkish Sources. Jerusalem: Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide, 1991.
Davis, Leslie A. The Slaughterhouse Province: An American Diplomat's Report on the Armenian Genocide, 1915–1917. ew Rochelle, N.Y.: A.D. Caratzas, 1989.
Fitzpatrick, Matthew P. "‘Ideal and Ornamental Endeavours’: The Armenian Reforms and Germany's Response to Britain's Imperial Humanitarianism in the Ottoman Empire, 1878–83." Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 40.2 (2012): 183–206.
Hovannisian, Richard G. "The Allies and Armenia, 1915–18". Journal of Contemporary History 1968 3(1): 145–168. ISSN 0022-0094 Fulltext: in Jstor
Laderman, Charlie. Sharing the Burden: The Armenian Question, Humanitarian Intervention, and Anglo-American Visions of Global Order (Oxford University Press, 2019).
Libaridian, Gerard. "The Ideology of the Young Turk Movement", pp. 37–49. In Gerard Libaridian (Ed.) A Crime of Silence, The Armenian Genocide: Permanent Peoples' Tribunal. London: Zed Books, 1985.
Morgenthau, Henry (1918). Ambassador Morgenthau's Story. Doubleday, Page.
Nassibian, Akaby (1984). Britain and the Armenian Question, 1915–1923. Croom Helm. ISBN 978-0-7099-1820-2.
Peterson, Merrill D. (2004). "Starving Armenians": America and the Armenian Genocide, 1915–1930 and After. University of Virginia Press. ISBN 978-0-8139-2267-6.
Power, Samantha (2003). 'A Problem from Hell': America and the Age of Genocide. Harper.
Severance, Gordon; Severance, Diana (2003). Against the Gates of Hell: The Life & Times of Henry Perry, a Christian Missionary in a Moslem World. University Press of America. ISBN 978-0-7618-2593-7.
Sarafian, Ara, ed. (2004). United States Official Documents on the Armenian Genocide, 1915–1917. Princeton, NJ: Gomidas.
Winter, Jay, ed. (2004). America and the Armenian Genocide of 1915. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-45018-8.

Memory and historiography

Alayarian, Aida (2018). Consequences of Denial: The Armenian Genocide. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-429-91215-3.
Auron, Yair [Oron, Ya'ir] (2005) [2003], The Banality of Denial: Israel and the Armenian Genocide, Transaction{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link).
Bevan, Robert (2006), "Cultural Cleansing: Who Remembers the Armenians?", The Destruction of Memory: Architecture at War, pp. 25–60, ISBN 1-86189-319-1.
Cheterian, Vicken (2015). Open Wounds: Armenians, Turks and a Century of Genocide. Hurst. ISBN 978-1-84904-458-5.
Fatma Müge Göçek and Donald Bloxham. "The Armenian Genocide" in The Historiography of Genocide. Dan Stone, ed. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2008, pp. 344–372. online
Gutman, David. "Ottoman Historiography and the End of the Genocide Taboo: Writing the Armenian Genocide into Late Ottoman History." Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association 2:1 (2015) pp. 167–183. online
Hovannisian, Richard G, ed. (1999), Remembrance and Denial: The Case of the Armenian Genocide, 316 pp.
Khatchadourian, Raffi. "Letter from Turkey. A Century of Silence." The New Yorker, 5 January 2015, pp. 32–53.
Laycock, Jo (2015). "Beyond National Narratives? Centenary Histories, the First World War and the Armenian Genocide Armenian Genocide" (PDF). Revolutionary Russia. 28 (2): 93–117. doi:10.1080/09546545.2015.1097091. S2CID 146746104.
Der Matossian, Bedross (Winter 2015), "Explaining the Unexplainable: Recent Trends in the Armenian Genocide Historiography" (PDF), Journal of Levantine Studies, 5 (2): 143–166, retrieved 11 June 2017
Melson, Robert (1982), "A Theoretical Inquiry into the Armenian Massacres of 1894–1896", Comparative Studies in Society and History, 24 (3): 481–509, doi:10.1017/S0010417500010100, S2CID 144670829.
——— (1989), "Revolutionary Genocide: On the causes of the Armenian genocide of 1915 and the Holocaust", Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 4 (2), Hein online: 161–174, doi:10.1093/hgs/4.2.161.
Peroomian, Rubina (1993), Literary Responses to Catastrophe: A Comparison of the Armenian and the Jewish Experience.
Quataert, Donald, "The Massacres of Ottoman Armenians and the Writing of Ottoman History," Journal of Interdisciplinary History 37:2 (2006): 249–259. online

Genocide denial

The Banality of Denial, by Yair Auron, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, 2003, ISBN 0-7658-0834-X, 338 p.
Investigation into the negation of a genocide, by Yves Ternon, Brackets, 1989
Revolution and Genocide, by Robert Melson, 1992, 386 p.
Armenia: The Survival of a Nation, by Christopher J. Walker. Revised Second Edition. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1990. 476 p.
Remembrance and Denial: The Case of the Armenian Genocide, by Richard G. Hovannisian, 1998
Dadrian, Vahakn. Key Elements in the Turkish Denial of the Armenian Genocide. Toronto: Zoryan Institute, 1999.
The Psychological Satisfaction of Denials of the Holocaust or Other Genocides by Non-Extremists or Bigots, and Even by Known Scholars, by Israel W. Charny, "IDEA" journal, 17 July 2001, Vol. 6, no. 1
Professional ethics and the denial of the Armenian genocide, by Smith, Roger W.; Markusen, Eric; and Lifton, Robert Jay // Holocaust and Genocide Studies, # 9 (1), 1995, pp. 1–22
"The long denied Armenian Genocide: Turkey's carefully forgotten history," by Taner Akçam, Le Monde Diplomatique, 2000
U.S. Denial of the Armenian Genocide, by Stephen Zunes, "Foreign Policy in Focus", 22 October 2007
Avedian, Vagahn (August 2012). "State Identity, Continuity, and Responsibility: The Ottoman Empire, the Republic of Turkey and the Armenian Genocide". European Journal of International Law. 23 (3): 797–820. doi:10.1093/ejil/chs056.
"WAS THERE AN ARMENIAN GENOCIDE? GEOFFREY ROBERTSON QC'S OPINIONWITH REFERENCE TO FOREIGN & COMMONWEALTH OFFICE DOCUMENTS WHICH SHOW HOW BRITISH MINISTERS, PARLIAMENT AND PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MISLED" (PDF). 2009-10-09. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-05-01. Retrieved 2020-11-28. – Posted at the University of Southern California (USC)
Göçek, Fatma Müge (2015). Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present and Collective Violence Against the Armenians, 1789–2009. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-933420-9.

Documentaries

Carla Garapedian (director); Peter McAlevey (producer) (2006). Screamers (documentary film).
"The Armenian Genocide I The Great War – Week 37". The Great War. 9 April 2015. Retrieved 2 February 2018.