This masterly study has a grand sweep. It ranges over centuries, with a long look backward over several millennia. Yet the history it unfolds is primarily the story of individuals: thinkers and dreamers who envisaged an ideal social order and described it

Vahan's Triumph is the personal account of one adolescent Armenian boy, a survivor of the premeditated genocidal practices of the Ottoman Turkish government around the time of the First World War. Born into a prosperous family in an Armenian town in Ottom