Kids Library Home

Welcome to the Kids' Library!

Search for books, movies, music, magazines, and more.

     
Available items only
Print Material
Author Vryonis, Speros, 1928-

Title The mechanism of catastrophe : the Turkish pogrom of September 6-7, 1955, and the destruction of the Greek community of Istanbul / Speros Vryonis.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Greekworks.com, c2005.

Copies

Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  949.618 V969m 2005    ---  Available
Description xxxv, 659 p., [90] p. of plates : ill., maps : 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Prologue : a personal chronicle -- Introduction : the Greeks of Istanbul on the eve of September 6, 1955 -- Background and institutions of the pogrom -- The pogrom -- Moral and material damages, and the economics and politics of compensation -- From Papagos to Karamanles (the economics and politics of compensation continued) -- The attack on the Greek Orthodox Church -- Crime and punishment, and the trial of the Menderes government -- Conclusions --Appendixes.
Subject Greeks -- Turkey -- Istanbul -- History -- 20th century.
Turkey -- History -- 20th century.
Istanbul (Turkey) -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN 0974766038
Standard No. 9780974766034

 
    
Available items only