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
