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Naissance le 10 mai 1838 à Belfast (Irlande du Nord), décès le 31 janvier 1922 à Sidmouth (Grande-Bretagne

Historien britannique, homme d’État et diplomate.

Après son éducation à l’Université de Glasgow et à Oxford, il pratique le droit à Londres pendant peu de temps avant d’enseigner le droit civil à Oxford. Il est l’auteur d’ouvrages importants dans de nombreux domaines, au premier rang desquels "L’Histoire du Saint-Empire" (1864). Il s’engagea en politique et devint un dirigeant du Parti Libéral, occupant plusieurs postes dont celui de Secrétaire d’État pour l’Irlande. L’intérêt qu’il porta à la sociologie et à la philosophie se remarque dans le second de ses grands traités, "Le Commonwealth américain" (1868) un classique toujours lu et utilisé. Bryce fut ambassadeur aux États-Unis de 1907 à 1913 ; il fut l’un des plus populaires en poste à Washington, en raison de sa connaissance approfondie des Américains, révélée par ses écrits. Il fut élevé à la paierie en 1914.

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The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire

Titre :	The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire / auteur(s) : James BRYCE - Uncensord Edition, Edited and with an introduction by Ara Sarafian
Editeur :	Gomidas Institute
Année :	2000
Imprimeur/Fabricant :	Reading
Description :	18 x 24,5 cm, 677 pages
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Sujets :	Armenian genocide
ISBN :	0953519155
Lecture On-line :	non disponible

Commentaire :

"The British Government today refuses to recognise the Armenian Genocide of 1915. They say that there is insufficient evidence, and that it is not their responsibility to review the events of 80 years ago and pronounce on them. Yet the British Foreign Office itself published a great deal of evidence as early as 1916. Their refusal to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide today is an affront to the brave witnesses whose testimony was carefully recorded, and the eminent scholars whose analysis is still valid today. "Ara Sarafian should be commended for making a critical edition of The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire available to the public. It may be seen as bad politics to exhume a million victims when the perpetrators' successors are on the threshold of the European Union, but it has been well said that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
—Eric Avebury, House of Lords

"The collection and collation of the evidence from which the Blue Book [The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire] was compiled had occupied most of my working time for a number of months; and, after the Blue Book had been published, I could not dismiss its contents from my mind. I was not only haunted by the victims' sufferings and by the criminals' deeds; I was exercised by the question how it could be possible for human beings to do what those perpetrators of genocide had done. "My study [of the Armenian Genocide] . . . left an impression on my mind that was not effaced by the still more cold-blooded genocide, on a far larger scale, that was committed during the Second World War by the Nazi. "Any great crime—private or public, personal or impersonal—raises a question that transcends national limits; the question goes to the heart of human nature itself. My study of the genocide that had been committed in Turkey in 1915 brought home to me the reality of Original Sin."
—Arnold J. Toynbee, Acquaintances (1967)

James BRYCE( 1838 - 1922 )

James BRYCE
( 1838 - 1922 )