Robert Melson
Biographic Data
| ID | 184494 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Melson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Melson |
| SIGNATURE | MELSON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Purdue University West Lafayette |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 113 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province Ümit Kurt
Ümit Kurt is a native son of Gaziantep, a city in southwestern Turkey, which before the First World War had been known as Aintab, and had been home to a Muslim majority and an Armenian minority. Kurt is a Muslim and a Turk. Some years back when he was a young man, he was invited by a friend to meet at a café in a part of the city he had never visited. When he arrived, he was intrigued by the elegance of the area, the striking architecture, and th…
Killing Orders: Talat Pasha’s Telegrams and the Armenian Genocide Taner Akçam
Taner Akçam, one of the major historians of the Armenian Genocide, is a professor of History and the Kaloosdian/Mugar Chair in Armenian Genocide Studies at the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. Akçam has published a number of important books on the topic, including The Young Turks’ Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire (2012), which was a co-winner of the Albert Houra…
Hans-Lukas Kieser, Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide
Tadem: My Father's Village Extinguished during the 1915 Armenian GenocideRobert Aram Kaloosdian
Contending Interpretations Concerning the Armenian Genocide: Continuity and Conspiracy, Discontinuity and Cumulative Radicalization
Some historians who write about and document the Armenian Genocide may still differ on the significance of the massacres of 1894–1896 and on the process that initiated the mass murder during and following the First World War. One group of historians argues that the genocide was, in effect, a continuation of the 1894–1896 massacres and that its origins were rooted in Islam and Ottoman culture. A second group of historians contends that the genocid…
Recent Developments in the Study of the Armenian Genocide
In recent years, as Turkey has become somewhat more liberal, a space has opened for some intellectuals and academics to rethink the events of 1915–1918 and the destruction or expulsion of the Armenians and other Christians of the Ottoman Empire. This should not be taken to imply that the Turkish state has ceased to deny the Armenian Genocide. Famously, Nobel-Prize-winning writer Orhan Pamuk stated in 2005 that “a million Armenians were killed in …
Critique of Current Genocide Studies
The present article critiques the views that (1) modern genocide does not substantially differ from its historical predecessors, (2) that all genocide is a product of imperialism, and (3) that the study of genocide can be reduced to a study of perpetrators and collaborators, while the testimonies of victims and survivors need not be taken into account. In contrast, this article suggests (1) that there are significant differences between modern or…
Churchill in Munich: The Paradox of Genocide Prevention
A catastrophe averted is likely not to be viewed as a catastrophe. A predicted event that fails to materialize is a non-event, something that did not happen, and politicians who expend wealth and lives on something that fails to happen cannot expect to reap the rewards of their decisions. Quite to the contrary, politicians who spend lives and treasure to prevent catastrophes such as genocide are likely to be vilified and punished for their effort…
Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide
1Purdue University Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide Alexander LabanHinton Berkeley University of California Press 2002 xvi + 405 $ 60.00
Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide
Journal Article Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide Get access Robert Melson Robert Melson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 18, Issue 1, Spring 2004, Pages 133–135, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/dch053 Published: 01 January 2004
The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective
Genocide, mass murder and human rights abuses are arguably the most perplexing and deeply troubling aspects of recent world history. This collection of essays by leading international experts offers an up-to-date, comprehensive history and analyses of multiple cases of genocide and genocidal acts, with a focus on the twentieth century. The book contains studies of the Armenian genocide, the victims of Stalinist terror, the Holocaust, and Imperial…
The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies
1Purdue University The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies GuenterLewy New YorkOxford University Press 2000306$30.00
Nigeria: The Birth of Africa's Greatest Country
Paradigms of Genocide: The Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, and Contemporary Mass Destructions
When confronted with mass death and forced deportations, the contemporary world community has often reached for the Holocaust as a paradigmatic case of genocide in order both to make sense of and to condemn current events. This article suggests that the Armenian Genocide sets a more accurate precedent than the Holocaust for current mass disasters, especially such as those in Nigeria and in the former Yugoslavia, which are the products of national…
Essay: Comments on Robert Melson's Revolution and Genocide
Journal Article Essay: Comments on Robert Melson's Revolution and Genocide Get access Vahakn N. Dadrain, Vahakn N. Dadrain H. F. Guggenheim Foundation Research Grant on Genocide, ConesusNew York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Robert Melson Robert Melson Purdue UniversityIndiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 8, Issue 3, Winte…
Revolution and genocide: On the origins of the Armenian genocide and the Holocaust
Politics in Modern Africa: The Uneven Tribal Dimension
1. The Imperial Legacy 2. Uganda: The kingdom and the power 3. Ghana: A confederation of regions? 4. Nigeria: Federation by concensus 5. Kenya: The President's country 6. Senegal: Unity in division 7. Guinea: United against the world 8. Zaire: The authentic Africa? 9. Angola: No man's land 10. Zimbabwe: Conclusion 11. Conclusion 12. Notes 13. Bibliography 14. Index
Genocide in the 20th Century’: Revolutionary Genocide: On the Causes of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 and the Holocaust
Journal Article ‘Genocide in the 20th Century’: REVOLUTIONARY GENOCIDE: ON THE CAUSES OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE OF 1915 AND THE HOLOCAUST Get access ROBERT MELSON ROBERT MELSON Purdue UniversityWest Lafayette, IN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 4, Issue 2, 1989, Pages 161–174, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/4.2.161 Published: 01 February 1989
Democracy in Developing Countries, Vol. II: Africa
Ijeshas and Nigerians: The Incorporation of a Yoruba Kingdom, 1890s-1970s
Between Battles and Ballots: Israeli Military in Politics. Yoram Peri Governing Peoples and Territories. Daniel J. Elazar
Central Administration in Nigeria, 1914-1948: The Problem of Polarity
The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary
Nigeria: Economy and Society
A Theoretical Inquiry into the Armenian Massacres of 1894-1896
In the period 1894-96, when the Ottoman Empire was ruled by Sultan Abdul Hamid II, tens of thousands of Armenians were massacred. Nineteen years later, when the empire was weakened by disintegration and war, some one million persons-half of the Armenian population-were killed with the active participation of the Committee of Union and Progress, the ruling party of the day. The massacres and the genocide-for that is what the second act of violence…
Modernization and the Politics of Communalism: A Theoretical Perspectve
It has been said that technological and economic development lead ultimately to the decline of communal conflict, and that the emergence of new kinds of socio-economic roles and identities undercuts the organizational bases upon which communal (that is, "racial," "ethnic," "religious," or "tribal") politics rests. In the past decade, several scholars working in culturally plural societies have challenged this conventional view. They have suggeste…
Ideology and Inconsistency: The "Cross-Pressured" Nigerian Worker
In the climate of ethnic insecurity present in Nigeria in 1964, workers tended to support ethnic over labor parties. A small fraction of workers who were cross-pressured between their ethnic and their labor loyalties however, tended to report that they supported both ethnic and labor parties. These are called the "incon-sistent." Looking more closely at this group, it was possible to distinguish between those who were descriptively inconsistent (…
Paradigms of Genocide: The Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, and Contemporary Mass Destructions
When confronted with mass death and forced deportations, the contemporary world community has often reached for the Holocaust as a paradigmatic case of genocide in order both to make sense of and to condemn current events. This article suggests that the Armenian Genocide sets a more accurate precedent than the Holocaust for current mass disasters, especially such as those in Nigeria and in the former Yugoslavia, which are the products of national…
A Theoretical Inquiry into the Armenian Massacres of 1894-1896
In the period 1894-96, when the Ottoman Empire was ruled by Sultan Abdul Hamid II, tens of thousands of Armenians were massacred. Nineteen years later, when the empire was weakened by disintegration and war, some one million persons-half of the Armenian population-were killed with the active participation of the Committee of Union and Progress, the ruling party of the day. The massacres and the genocide-for that is what the second act of violence…
The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary
Nigeria: Economy and Society
The International Politics of the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970
Politics in Modern Africa: The Uneven Tribal Dimension
1. The Imperial Legacy 2. Uganda: The kingdom and the power 3. Ghana: A confederation of regions? 4. Nigeria: Federation by concensus 5. Kenya: The President's country 6. Senegal: Unity in division 7. Guinea: United against the world 8. Zaire: The authentic Africa? 9. Angola: No man's land 10. Zimbabwe: Conclusion 11. Conclusion 12. Notes 13. Bibliography 14. Index
Genocide in the 20th Century’: Revolutionary Genocide: On the Causes of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 and the Holocaust
Journal Article ‘Genocide in the 20th Century’: REVOLUTIONARY GENOCIDE: ON THE CAUSES OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE OF 1915 AND THE HOLOCAUST Get access ROBERT MELSON ROBERT MELSON Purdue UniversityWest Lafayette, IN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 4, Issue 2, 1989, Pages 161–174, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/4.2.161 Published: 01 February 1989
Central Administration in Nigeria, 1914-1948: The Problem of Polarity
Recent Developments in the Study of the Armenian Genocide
In recent years, as Turkey has become somewhat more liberal, a space has opened for some intellectuals and academics to rethink the events of 1915–1918 and the destruction or expulsion of the Armenians and other Christians of the Ottoman Empire. This should not be taken to imply that the Turkish state has ceased to deny the Armenian Genocide. Famously, Nobel-Prize-winning writer Orhan Pamuk stated in 2005 that “a million Armenians were killed in …
Modernization and the Politics of Communalism: A Theoretical Perspectve
It has been said that technological and economic development lead ultimately to the decline of communal conflict, and that the emergence of new kinds of socio-economic roles and identities undercuts the organizational bases upon which communal (that is, "racial," "ethnic," "religious," or "tribal") politics rests. In the past decade, several scholars working in culturally plural societies have challenged this conventional view. They have suggeste…
Ideology and Inconsistency: The "Cross-Pressured" Nigerian Worker
In the climate of ethnic insecurity present in Nigeria in 1964, workers tended to support ethnic over labor parties. A small fraction of workers who were cross-pressured between their ethnic and their labor loyalties however, tended to report that they supported both ethnic and labor parties. These are called the "incon-sistent." Looking more closely at this group, it was possible to distinguish between those who were descriptively inconsistent (…
Nigeria: Modernization and the Politics of Communalism
Urbanization and Political Change: The Politics of Lagos, 1917-67
The primary objec? tive of this new book on local level politics is to examine the political process in an urbanizing African community to determine how urbanization has affected the exercise and distribution of power and influence. Lagos, now the capitol of Nigeria and one of the richest and fastest growing cities in the Third World, is an excellent setting for such a study. The metropolis has grown tenfold during the last half-century, and thro…
The Shrinking Political Arena: Participation and Ethnicity in African Politics, with a Case Study of Uganda
The International Politics of the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970
The Politics of Cultural Pluralism
Central Administration in Nigeria, 1914-1948: The Problem of Polarity
The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary
Nigeria: Economy and Society
A Theoretical Inquiry into the Armenian Massacres of 1894-1896
In the period 1894-96, when the Ottoman Empire was ruled by Sultan Abdul Hamid II, tens of thousands of Armenians were massacred. Nineteen years later, when the empire was weakened by disintegration and war, some one million persons-half of the Armenian population-were killed with the active participation of the Committee of Union and Progress, the ruling party of the day. The massacres and the genocide-for that is what the second act of violence…
Between Battles and Ballots: Israeli Military in Politics. Yoram Peri Governing Peoples and Territories. Daniel J. Elazar
Ijeshas and Nigerians: The Incorporation of a Yoruba Kingdom, 1890s-1970s
Genocide in the 20th Century’: Revolutionary Genocide: On the Causes of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 and the Holocaust
Journal Article ‘Genocide in the 20th Century’: REVOLUTIONARY GENOCIDE: ON THE CAUSES OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE OF 1915 AND THE HOLOCAUST Get access ROBERT MELSON ROBERT MELSON Purdue UniversityWest Lafayette, IN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 4, Issue 2, 1989, Pages 161–174, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/4.2.161 Published: 01 February 1989
Democracy in Developing Countries, Vol. II: Africa
Revolution and genocide: On the origins of the Armenian genocide and the Holocaust
Politics in Modern Africa: The Uneven Tribal Dimension
1. The Imperial Legacy 2. Uganda: The kingdom and the power 3. Ghana: A confederation of regions? 4. Nigeria: Federation by concensus 5. Kenya: The President's country 6. Senegal: Unity in division 7. Guinea: United against the world 8. Zaire: The authentic Africa? 9. Angola: No man's land 10. Zimbabwe: Conclusion 11. Conclusion 12. Notes 13. Bibliography 14. Index
Essay: Comments on Robert Melson's Revolution and Genocide
Journal Article Essay: Comments on Robert Melson's Revolution and Genocide Get access Vahakn N. Dadrain, Vahakn N. Dadrain H. F. Guggenheim Foundation Research Grant on Genocide, ConesusNew York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Robert Melson Robert Melson Purdue UniversityIndiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 8, Issue 3, Winte…
Paradigms of Genocide: The Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, and Contemporary Mass Destructions
When confronted with mass death and forced deportations, the contemporary world community has often reached for the Holocaust as a paradigmatic case of genocide in order both to make sense of and to condemn current events. This article suggests that the Armenian Genocide sets a more accurate precedent than the Holocaust for current mass disasters, especially such as those in Nigeria and in the former Yugoslavia, which are the products of national…
Nigeria: The Birth of Africa's Greatest Country
The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies
1Purdue University The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies GuenterLewy New YorkOxford University Press 2000306$30.00
The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective
Genocide, mass murder and human rights abuses are arguably the most perplexing and deeply troubling aspects of recent world history. This collection of essays by leading international experts offers an up-to-date, comprehensive history and analyses of multiple cases of genocide and genocidal acts, with a focus on the twentieth century. The book contains studies of the Armenian genocide, the victims of Stalinist terror, the Holocaust, and Imperial…
Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide
1Purdue University Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide Alexander LabanHinton Berkeley University of California Press 2002 xvi + 405 $ 60.00
Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide
Journal Article Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide Get access Robert Melson Robert Melson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 18, Issue 1, Spring 2004, Pages 133–135, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/dch053 Published: 01 January 2004
Churchill in Munich: The Paradox of Genocide Prevention
A catastrophe averted is likely not to be viewed as a catastrophe. A predicted event that fails to materialize is a non-event, something that did not happen, and politicians who expend wealth and lives on something that fails to happen cannot expect to reap the rewards of their decisions. Quite to the contrary, politicians who spend lives and treasure to prevent catastrophes such as genocide are likely to be vilified and punished for their effort…
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