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The Great Game of Genocide - Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians (Paperback)
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The Great Game of Genocide - Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians (Paperback)
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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 of
the 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 that culminated 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 include detailed 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 Entente and then
the uncomfortable postwar Anglo-French axis; and American political
interest in the Middle East in the interwar period which led to a
policy of refusing to recognize the genocide. The book concludes by
explaining the ongoing international denial of the genocide as an
extension of the historical 'Armenian question', with many of the
same considerationsgoverning modern European-American-Turkish
interaction as existed prior to the First World War.
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