Assyrian Government of Dependencies
@article{Olmstead1918AssyrianGO, title={Assyrian Government of Dependencies}, author={Albert Ten Eyck Olmstead}, journal={American Political Science Review}, year={1918}, volume={12}, pages={63 - 77} }
The labor member of the Belgian ministry, M. van der Velde, has drawn a parallel between the Assyrian methods of deportation and those practiced by the Germans. An orientalist has developed this theme with chapter and verse citation. Whatever our sympathies in this present world catastrophe and however close we find the analogy, the episode has undoubtedly excited a certain amount of curiosity as to the methods used by the Assyrians in the government of their dependencies. To the more…
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