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Explores the political and social life of the Armenian community in the Ottoman Empire during the post-war period.
Much traditional historiography consciously and unconsciously glosses over certain discourses, narratives, and practices. This book examines silences or omissions in Middle Eastern history at the turn of the twenty-first century, to give a fuller account of the society, culture and politics. With a particular focus on the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Egypt, Iran and Palestine, the contributors consider how and why such silences occur, as well as the timing and motivation for breaking them. Introducing unexpected, sometimes counter-intuitive, issues in history, chapters examine: women and children survivors of the Armenian massacres in 1915 Greek-Orthodox subjects who supported the Ottoman empire ...
Hans Gulbrandsen (1833-1909) emigrated from Norway to Jackson County, Wisconsin in 1857, and was joined by his parents and their family between 1862 and 1864. The family changed the surname to Gilbertson, and descendants lived in Wisconsin, Virginia and elsewhere. Includes some Norwegian ancestors.