Rouben Paul Adalian is Director of the Armenian National Institute (ANI), founded in 1997, and Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum of America project, in Washington, D.C.
Armenia, conquered by many, was until 1991 part of the Soviet
Union. Its turbulent history includes the 1915 Armenian Genocide,
the devastating 1988 earthquake, and its uneasy, sometimes hostile,
relations with neighbors Turkey and Azerbaijan. This title follows
the established format for the Historical Dictionaries series.
Along with a new preface, it includes the one from the 2002 edition
(CH, Apr'03, 40-4363). The book explains the transliteration used
and provides a list of acronyms/abbreviations, a 68-page
introduction, and a chronology (ca. 1500 BCE to October 2009, with
emphasis on the later years). A few photographs are a recent
addition to the series. Dictionary entries, varied in length and
broad in scope, include prominent individuals living outside the
country. An extensive bibliography of English and non-English
sources is divided by topic and features a list of Web
sites....Adalian (director, Armenian National Institute) has
published other works and has completed a project on the Armenian
Genocide for the US National Archives. This is a useful one-step
source for university and college libraries. Summing Up:
Recommended.
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Almost one-third longer than the first edition, published in 2002,
this volume in the Scarecrow Historical Dictionaries of Europe
series follows the same format as other titles in the series. The
work begins with a chronology, followed by a lengthy and very
informative introductory essay on the history of this ancient,
landlocked country. Entries range in length from a paragraph to
several pages and provide an eclectic mix of information on
religion, foreign policy, the Armenian diaspora, prominent
individuals, and the Armenian genocide, to name just a few topics.
There is a lengthy but unannotated bibliography organized by
subject and subtopic.
The author is a widely published academic expert, so readers can be
confident about the authoritativeness of the work. Although there
is no indication of how many entries are new or revised, the
preface notes that although preparation of the first edition was
hampered by a lack of information, the explosion of resources
available on the Internet has created “the opposite problem of too
much information, even for so small a country.” The bibliography as
well as many of the entries reflect this change, making this title
worth considering even for libraries that own the first
edition.
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