Armenia and Imperial Decline - 9781138480575

Name: Armenia and Imperial Decline - 9781138480575
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Armenia and Imperial DeclineThe Yerevan Province, 1900-1914\nAuthor(s): George Bournoutian\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138480575, 978-1138480575\nSynopsis\nThis book seeks, for the first time, to examine the demography and the social and economic conditions in the Yerevan Province during the first decade of the twentieth century, before the great changes that occurred during World War I and the seven decades of Soviet rule. Unlike in Tiflis and Baku, the Armenian inhabitants of the Yerevan Province were overwhelmingly peasants. They did not play a major role in the political, intellectual or economic life of the South Caucasus.\n\nThe aim of the book is to prove conclusively that the Armenians of the Yerevan Province not only benefited from living under the umbrella of imperial security, but, as junior and senior officials, they also acquired important administrative and professional skills. The social and e.