Aid to Armenia: Humanitarianism and Intervention from the 1890s to the Present
Laycock, Joanne and Piana, Francesca · 2020
This ten-essay volume examines more than a century of humanitarian engagement with Armenia and Armenians, from the Hamidian massacres of the 1890s to the present day. The editors frame Armenia as a recurring focal point of international aid, tracing shifting transnational networks of relief across the Ottoman, Tsarist, Soviet, and post-independence periods. Geographically the chapters range across the Caucasus, Russia, the Middle East, Europe, North and South America, and Australia. Individual essays treat relief during the Hamidian massacres, Russian imperial responses, Norwegian relief operations, Australian and Brazilian campaigns, diaspora philanthropy, post-1988 earthquake aid, peacebuilding, and Syrian Armenian refugees. Closing reflections come from refugee historian Peter Gatrell and Armenian studies scholar Ronald Grigor Suny. The collection positions the Armenian case as central to the global history of humanitarianism rather than a footnote to it.
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Laycock, Joanne and Piana, Francesca 2020. Aid to Armenia: Humanitarianism and Intervention from the 1890s to the Present. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2020, 216 pp., ISBN 978-1-5261-4220-7 (Humanitarianism: Key Debates and New Approaches).
What this offers a reader
One volume that connects the missionaries of the 1890s, the earthquake aid of 1988, and today's Syrian Armenian refugees into a single story of aid.
A transnational history of humanitarianism using the Armenian case to periodize intervention across imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet regimes.
A history of everyone who answered when Armenians called for help, and of how Armenians organized aid for their own.
How the world has tried, and often failed, to help Armenia over 130 years.
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