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The Great Game of Genocide Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians

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The Great Game of Genocide

Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians

Donald Bloxham

352 pages | 4 maps, 8pp black & white plate section | 234x156mm

978-0-19-922688-7 | Paperback | 26 July 2007

Price: £24.00

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Nuanced, subtle, and non-partisan account of the Armenian genocide
New assessment of the role of the great European powers and the USA in the genesis, course, and the aftermath of the genocide

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 considerations governing modern European-American-Turkish interaction as existed prior to the First World War.

Readership: Readers interested in twentieth-century international history and genocide studies; Turkish and Ottoman historians.

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