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NOTES FROM THE BATTLEFIELD KNOWN AS ‘HISTORY’
Abstract
That history is a battlefield of ideas, facts and interpretationis a truth every historian worthy of the description knows. In this articleI raise some issues related to my own academic involvement in thehistory of the ‘Armenian question’. It would be incorrect to say thatthere is a ‘debate’ over this issue. Debate implies genuine engagementin the search for truth but in Europe, the US, Australia and numerousother countries around the world the truth is apparently known topeople who have little or no knowledge of late Ottoman history. Historyis thus brought to a dead stop: when the truth is known, debate becomespointless and even offensive – why would anyone want to challenge thetruth when it is so manifestly the truth? The point here is that themainstream narrative is not the truth, the whole truth and nothing butthe truth. It is more a mixture of truths, half truths, lies, exaggerationsand omissions that would significantly shape perceptions were they areever allowed into the mainstream. This short article examines, from apersonal perspective, some of the issues that have taken the author’sattention
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Year 2012 Number: 25
APA
NOTES FROM THE BATTLEFIELD KNOWN AS ‘HISTORY’. (2012). Review of Armenian Studies, 25, 265-276. https://izlik.org/JA43BS26SE
AMA
1.NOTES FROM THE BATTLEFIELD KNOWN AS ‘HISTORY’. RAS. 2012;(25):265-276. https://izlik.org/JA43BS26SE
Chicago
“NOTES FROM THE BATTLEFIELD KNOWN AS ‘HISTORY’”. 2012. Review of Armenian Studies, nos. 25: 265-76. https://izlik.org/JA43BS26SE.
EndNote
(May 1, 2012) NOTES FROM THE BATTLEFIELD KNOWN AS ‘HISTORY’. Review of Armenian Studies 25 265–276.
IEEE
[1]“NOTES FROM THE BATTLEFIELD KNOWN AS ‘HISTORY’”, RAS, no. 25, pp. 265–276, May 2012, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA43BS26SE
ISNAD
“NOTES FROM THE BATTLEFIELD KNOWN AS ‘HISTORY’”. Review of Armenian Studies. 25 (May 1, 2012): 265-276. https://izlik.org/JA43BS26SE.
JAMA
1.NOTES FROM THE BATTLEFIELD KNOWN AS ‘HISTORY’. RAS. 2012;:265–276.
MLA
“NOTES FROM THE BATTLEFIELD KNOWN AS ‘HISTORY’”. Review of Armenian Studies, no. 25, May 2012, pp. 265-76, https://izlik.org/JA43BS26SE.
Vancouver
1.NOTES FROM THE BATTLEFIELD KNOWN AS ‘HISTORY’. RAS [Internet]. 2012 May 1;(25):265-76. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA43BS26SE