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BOOK ON ARMENIAN AMIRAS PUBLISHED IN TURKISH
http://www.armenianweekly.com/2014/01/16/amiras/
By Contributor // January 16, 2014
ISTANBUL, Turkey (A.W.)--On Dec. 25, 2013, Istanbul's Aras Publishing
published the Turkish translation of Hagop L. Barsoumian's The
Armenian Amira Class of Istanbul (İstanbul'un Ermeni Amiralar Sınıfı,
in Turkish). Human rights activist Ayse Gunaysu, who is also a
professional translator and a columnist for the Armenian Weekly,
edited the book and prepared it for publication.
Cover of the Turkish translation of The Armenian Amira Class of
Istanbul
Originally published by the American University of Armenia (AUA)
in 2007, The Armenian Amira Class of Istanbul was Barsoumian's 1980
doctoral dissertation at Columbia University.
The book opens with a heartfelt tribute to the author by his wife,
Anais, who brought about the publication 21 years after Hagop
Barsoumian's disappearance during the Lebanese civil war in 1986.
Khachig Tololyan, professor of English and chair of the English
department at Wesleyan University, and a longtime friend of the author,
notes in the preface, "At the time of its completion around 1979
it was, as it remains now, the most thorough study of the Armenian
amiras of the Ottoman Empire."
The Armenian Amira Class of Istanbul provides the story of the
powerful elite group known as the amiras, tracing their rise,
dominance, and, ultimately, decline. Barsoumian's research also
draws the genealogical connections between these elite families,
and the role these relationships played in maintaining power.
"No one has done this for the amiras with anything remotely approaching
Barsoumian's thoroughness. His grasp of these connections of descent
and marriage enables him to write confidently about the ways in which
a dominant elite constructed and sustained itself," writes Tololyan.
Born in Aleppo in 1936 to Ayntabtsi parents and genocide survivors,
Barsoumian attended the Karen Jeppe Jemaran. In 1960, he settled in the
San Francisco, Calif. He attended San Francisco State College, where
he earned a B.S. (1964), followed by an M.A. (1969) in international
trade, focusing on the European common market. In 1972, he relocated
to New York. In 1975, he earned another M.A. in Middle East history
from New York University and, five years later, earned his Ph.D. from
Columbia University in Ottoman history. Barsoumian then moved to
Beirut, where he taught history and Middle East politics at Haigazian
University. On Jan. 31, 1986, he was kidnapped, and was not seen again.
From: Baghdasarian
http://www.armenianweekly.com/2014/01/16/amiras/
By Contributor // January 16, 2014
ISTANBUL, Turkey (A.W.)--On Dec. 25, 2013, Istanbul's Aras Publishing
published the Turkish translation of Hagop L. Barsoumian's The
Armenian Amira Class of Istanbul (İstanbul'un Ermeni Amiralar Sınıfı,
in Turkish). Human rights activist Ayse Gunaysu, who is also a
professional translator and a columnist for the Armenian Weekly,
edited the book and prepared it for publication.
Cover of the Turkish translation of The Armenian Amira Class of
Istanbul
Originally published by the American University of Armenia (AUA)
in 2007, The Armenian Amira Class of Istanbul was Barsoumian's 1980
doctoral dissertation at Columbia University.
The book opens with a heartfelt tribute to the author by his wife,
Anais, who brought about the publication 21 years after Hagop
Barsoumian's disappearance during the Lebanese civil war in 1986.
Khachig Tololyan, professor of English and chair of the English
department at Wesleyan University, and a longtime friend of the author,
notes in the preface, "At the time of its completion around 1979
it was, as it remains now, the most thorough study of the Armenian
amiras of the Ottoman Empire."
The Armenian Amira Class of Istanbul provides the story of the
powerful elite group known as the amiras, tracing their rise,
dominance, and, ultimately, decline. Barsoumian's research also
draws the genealogical connections between these elite families,
and the role these relationships played in maintaining power.
"No one has done this for the amiras with anything remotely approaching
Barsoumian's thoroughness. His grasp of these connections of descent
and marriage enables him to write confidently about the ways in which
a dominant elite constructed and sustained itself," writes Tololyan.
Born in Aleppo in 1936 to Ayntabtsi parents and genocide survivors,
Barsoumian attended the Karen Jeppe Jemaran. In 1960, he settled in the
San Francisco, Calif. He attended San Francisco State College, where
he earned a B.S. (1964), followed by an M.A. (1969) in international
trade, focusing on the European common market. In 1972, he relocated
to New York. In 1975, he earned another M.A. in Middle East history
from New York University and, five years later, earned his Ph.D. from
Columbia University in Ottoman history. Barsoumian then moved to
Beirut, where he taught history and Middle East politics at Haigazian
University. On Jan. 31, 1986, he was kidnapped, and was not seen again.
From: Baghdasarian