
Le reve brise des assyro-chaldeens - l'introuvableautonomie
Claire Weibel Yacoub - Collection L'histoire à vif
Résumé
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Mesopotamians, Christians for 2000 years, the Assyro-Chaldeans were filled with hope after WW1. These people are not strangers to the West - first contacts go back to the 13th century. In the 17th century, France was even viewed as a protector. Yet in the 20th century, their fate took a dramatic turn. During the Great War, like the Armenians, they were the victims of a terrible genocide in 1915. As soon as the armistice was declared, the Assyro-Chaldeans were excited by ideas of freedom and self-government, seized by the dream of a homeland. During the Peace Conference in Paris, they submitted 11 memoranda to the main powers, and 7 delegations were present in Paris. The historian Arnold Joseph Toynbee casts new light on this period. France and the UK were rivals for control of the territories of the former Ottoman Empire. Was the Assyro-Chaldean issue treated in the context of the vast chess game played between the two great powers? These little-known pages of history are investigated in this book through different sources, some of them previously unpublished. The ordeals experienced by the Assyro-Chaldeans during WW1 have to be borne in mind if we are to understand the present. Today, will they once again be the forgotten party in the collective tragedy now taking place, in front of our eyes, in Iraq? After the LON, what is the UNO doing to protect native minorities? To answer that question, it is necessary to know what took place at the Peace Conference between 1919 and 1925. This book will tell you.
Caractéristiques techniques
PAPIER | |
Éditeur(s) | Cerf |
Auteur(s) | Claire Weibel Yacoub |
Collection | L'histoire à vif |
Parution | 03/03/2011 |
Nb. de pages | 309 |
Format | 13.7 x 21.7 |
Couverture | Broché |
Poids | 410g |
EAN13 | 9782204091824 |
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