This book draws on unpublished archival material and an innovative historiographical approach to analyze events and their legacy in comparative perspective.
Taner Akçam is Professor of History, Director of Armenian Genocide Research Program at Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA. He published extensively on Armenian Genocide and Turkish Nationalism. His most known books A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility (Metropolitan Books, 2006) and Killing Orders: Talat Pasha's Telegrams and the Armenian Genocide (Palgrave, 2018).
Theodosios Kyriakidis is Research Fellow at the Chair for Pontic Studies of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and associate lecturer at International Hellenic University and Hellenic Open University. His research interests include the history and culture of the Greeks of Pontus and Asia Minor as well as the Genocide of the Christian population of the Ottoman Empire. His latest book is In the Name of Faith and Civilization: Roman-Catholic Missionaries in Nineteenth-Century Pontus (2019).
Kyriakos Chatzikyriakidis is Associate Professor at the Chair for Pontic Studies of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and associate lecturer at the Hellenic Open University. His research interests lie mainly in the area of economic and social history of the Greeks of Anatolia and Cyprus (19th-early 20th century) and the refugee settlement of the Greeks of Asia Minor in Greece after the Lausanne Treaty (1923).