Description: Before the Nation: Muslim-Christian Coexistence and its Destruction in Late-Ottoman Anatolia [Hardcover] Doumanis, Nicholas Product Overview It is common for survivors of ethnic cleansing and even genocide to speak nostalgically about earlier times of intercommunal harmony and brotherhood. After being driven from their Anatolian homelands, Greek Orthodox refugees insisted that they 'lived well with the Turks', and yearned for the days when they worked and drank coffee together, participated in each other's festivals, and even prayed to the same saints. Historians have never showed serious regard to these memories, given the refugees had fled from horrific 'ethnic' violence that appeared to reflect deep-seated and pre-existing animosities. Refugee nostalgia seemed pure fantasy; perhaps contrived to lessen the pain and humiliations of displacement. Before the Nation argues that there is more than a grain of truth to these nostalgic traditions. It points to the fact that intercommunality, a mode of everyday living based on the accommodation of cultural difference, was a normal and stabilizing feature of multi-ethnic societies. Refugee memory and other ethnographic sources provide ample illustration of the beliefs and practices associated with intercommunal living, which local Muslims and Christian communities likened to a common moral environment. Drawing largely from an oral archive containing interviews with over 5000 refugees, Nicholas Doumanis examines the mentalities, cosmologies, and value systems as they relate to cultures of coexistence. He furthermore rejects the commonplace assumption that the empire was destroyed by intercommunal hatreds. Doumanis emphasizes the role of state-perpetrated political violence which aimed to create ethnically homogenous spaces, and which went some way in transforming these Anatolians into Greeks and Turks. Read more Details Publisher : Oxford University Press; 1st edition (December 12, 2012) Language : English Hardcover : 246 pages ISBN-10 : 0199547041 ISBN-13 : 43 Item Weight : 15.8 ounces Dimensions : 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.63 inches Best Sellers Rank: #3,098,313 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #3,332 in European History (Books) #13,201 in History of Christianity (Books) #3,332 in European History (Books) #13,201 in History of Christianity (Books) We have been selling used books since 2012, and we've learned that the most important thing is doing good business. Honesty is our policy. Free Shipping We ship worldwide. We have multiple warehouses around the world, so please note the extended handling time on certain listings.
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ISBN: 0199547041
ISBN10: 0199547041
ISBN13: 9780199547043
EAN: 9780199547043
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Brand: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
GTIN: 09780199547043
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Before the Nation : Muslim-Christian Coexistence and Its Destruction in Late-Ottoman Anatolia
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Subject: Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, Sociology / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Islam / General, Christianity / General, Customs & Traditions, Europe / General
Publication Year: 2012
Item Height: 0.7 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 17.6 Oz
Author: Nicholas Doumanis
Subject Area: Religion, Social Science, History
Item Length: 9.5 in
Item Width: 6.9 in
Format: Hardcover
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