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ISBN10: 0199226881, ISBN13: 9780199226887, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Softcover Paperback. The Great Game of Genocide addresses the origins, development and aftermath of the Armenian genocide in a wide-ranging reappraisal based on primary and secondary sources from all the major parties involved. Rejecting the determinism of many influential studies, and discarding polemics on all sides, it founds its interpretation of the genocide in the interaction between the Ottoman empire in its decades of terminal decline, the self-interested policies ofthe European imperial powers, and the agenda of some Armenian nationalists in and beyond Ottoman territory. Particular attention is paid to the international context of the process of ethnic polarization thatculminated in the massive destruction of 1912-23, and especially the obliteration of the Armenian community in 1915-16. The opening chapters of the book examine the relationship between the great power politics of the 'eastern question' from 1774, the narrower politics of the 'Armenian question' from the mid-nineteenth century, and the internal Ottoman questions of reforming the complex social and ethnic order under intense external pressure. Later chapters includedetailed case studies of the role of Imperial Germany during the First World War (reaching conclusions markedly different to the prevailing orthodoxy of German complicity in the genocide); the wartime Ententeand then the ...
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Paperback / softback. New. Approximately one million Armenian Christians were killed in 1915-16 under the auspices of the Ottoman government. For nearly a century, this genocide has been ignored or not recognized for what it was. This book provides an explanation for why it happened and why it has subsequently been overlooked, and offers an interpretation. ISBN 0199226881 9780199226887 [GB]

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ISBN10: 0199226881, ISBN13: 9780199226887, [publisher: Oxford University Press OUP] Softcover pp. 352, 4 Maps
[New York, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2007]