Taner Akçam Announces Book on the “New History of the Armenian Genocide”

YEREVAN (Mediamax) — Historian and sociologist Taner Akçam has announced that his new book, “Empire of Violence: A New History of the Armenian Genocide,” will be published in January 2027.

“I began working on the Armenian Genocide in 1991. Easy to say – more than thirty-five years! Over those long years: books, articles, conferences, and a new generation of young scholars…

Perhaps, in all that time, I have managed to move one small stone in an enormous rock face. And I decided to bring together in one book what I had learned over more than thirty-five years of research. The result is “Empire of Violence: A New History of the Armenian Genocide.”

Of course, I could not address every subject. But I have tried to tell the story of the period from 1878 through the 1930s through what I hope is a new understanding of historical continuity. In doing so, I have also tried to place the Armenian experience within a broader history of violence, giving attention not only to Armenians but also to Greeks and Assyrians.

The book presents a great deal of new and little-known evidence concerning the Hamidian period, the 1909 Adana massacres, the years 1914-1918, and their aftermath. I think I can comfortably say that what has emerged is indeed “a new history” of the Armenian Genocide.

The work of a younger generation of scholars, and the new findings they have brought to the field, also occupies a very special place in the book.

The book will be published by Princeton University Press, one of the most prestigious academic presses in the United States,” Akçam said.