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.[1]

Publishers Weekly stated that the work was made with a level of "detachment" even though members of Suny's family died in the genocide.[2] Howard Eissenstat stated that the book "the best and most accessible summary of this new consensus" that transcends nationalist narratives on the genocide and "a remarkable work of history".[3]

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."[1]

References
  1. Erickson, Edward J. (Summer 2015). ""They Can Live in the Desert but No where Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide by Ronald Grigor Suny (review)". The Middle East Journal. Middle East Institute. pp. 492–495.
  2. "They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else: A History of the Armenian Genocide". Publishers Weekly. 2015-04-13. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
  3. Eissenstat, Howard (2015). "A New Understanding of a Century-Old Genocide". Current History. 114 (774): 285–287. doi:10.1525/curh.2015.114.774.285.

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