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Armenian General Benevolent Union, The
One Hundred Years of History, Vol. 1: 1906-1940
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Published to commemorate the centenary of the Armenian General Benevolent Union. As goes without saying, coming to terms with the history of an organization such as the AGBU - which has put down roots on all five continents and is active in many different fields - inevitable means making choices. A discussion of all aspects of the AGBU's history, particularly its local history, would have gone far beyond the scope of the present work. The appraoch we have taken throughout privileges the Union's central board and the programs it designed and developed. THe central board is our protagonist. Volume I, based on rich archival material, provides a fairly complete account of the AGBU's evolution from its origins to World War II. Throughout the first volume, we have sought to put the organization's development in the wider context of Armenian history as a whole. Our aim here has been to trace the general outlines of the "reconstruction" of the Armenian world, especially in the Near Eastern countries where Armenians found refuge and the Union made a major contribution to Armenian history. We have broadened this account to include a description of the more directly political activities of Boghos Nubar and Calouste Gulbenkian, the first two presidents of the AGBU.
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