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Review of Henry R. Shapiro, The Rise of the Western Armenian Diaspora in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire: From Refugee Crisis to Renaissance

Ohanian, Daniel · 2024

A review essay in Brill's Journal of Early Modern History assessing Henry R. Shapiro's monograph on the formation of the Western Armenian diaspora in the early modern Ottoman Empire, a subject that sits squarely in Ohanian's own dissertation field of Armenian refugee movement, community formation and cultural renaissance in the seventeenth-century Ottoman world.

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Published in
Journal of Early Modern History, Vol. 28, No. 1-2, pp. 184–186 (Brill); DOI 10.1163/15700658-12342746
Year
2024
Language
English
DOI
10.1163/15700658-12342746

Citation

Ohanian, Daniel 2024. Review of Henry R. Shapiro, The Rise of the Western Armenian Diaspora in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire: From Refugee Crisis to Renaissance. Journal of Early Modern History, Vol. 28, No. 1-2, pp. 184–186 (Brill); DOI 10.1163/15700658-12342746. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700658-12342746

What this offers a reader

For students

A short, expert assessment of a major recent book on how the Western Armenian diaspora began.

For academics

Review essay by a specialist in the same field; useful as a critical guide to Shapiro's argument.

For the community

One scholar of the early Western Armenian diaspora weighing another.

For a general reader

An expert review of a major new book on the origins of the Western Armenian diaspora.

Topics

Western Armenian diasporaearly modern Ottoman EmpireArmenian refugee crisisArmenian renaissancehistoriographybook review

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