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Armenians and Diasporas: A Breakthrough Book

The variety of historical situations discussed as “diasporas” is very great. If we find some common features of, say, the Jewish and Armenian diasporas, we may find fewer between them and the Chinese, the Indians, the Lebanese, and even fewer with the case many would say is the most important in world history, the completely involuntary diaspora of millions of Africans sent to the Americas. Complications multiply if we ask diaspora-studies questions about the great nineteenthcentury migrations to the Americas, Australia, and so on, noticing the Irish fleeing famine, encountering prejudice in the US, and staying involved in the violent politics of their homeland; go on to the great flows in so many directions after 1945; or just ask a taxi driver in London, Toronto, or Washington, DC, about the politics of his homeland. The story of the Armenians after the terrors of 1915 is part of every general discussion of diaspora, and is important to many of us in our urban lives; in Pasadena, California, I probably still can find a “Boycott Turkish products” sign on someone’s front lawn, and I know of five or six Armenian churches and benevolent societies that do not always get along well with each other. However, the singular story of the Armenian early modern diaspora gets much less attention. Philip Curtin’s CrossCultural Trade in World History, which raised the ante for a comprehensive view of diasporas by starting with what he knew best, the inland trading routes of west Africa, included a whole chapter on the Diaspora 16:3 2007