The History of Armenia

The History of Armenia

Payaslian, Simon.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, 304 pages. ISBN 978-1-4039-7467-9.

Description:
From its genesis through the Genocide to the second independent republic, Armenia has experienced a history of conquest and near annihilation, fragmentation and dispersion, as well as moments of renaissance. Simon Payaslian has written a fluent synthesis of that disjointed, frequently tragic, often inspiring history. In this single volume he has brought together the best of recent scholarship with balance and clarity to illustrate how a people has survived in a most dangerous neighborhood for two and a half millennia.

Sample Chapters:

• Dynasties and the Geopolitics of Empire: The Ervanduni and the Artashesian Dynasties
• Culture, Language, and Wars of Religion: Kings, Marzpans, Ostikans
• The Bagratuni Kingdom and Disintegration
• The Kilikian Kingdom, the Crusades, and the Invasions from the East
• Armenia under Ottoman and Russian Rule
• The Armenian Genocide
• The Republic of Armenia: The First Republic
• The Leninist-Stalinist Legacy: Seventy Years of Soviet Rule
• Independence and Democracy: The Second Republic