TY - BOOK AU - Bloxham, Donald, TI - The great game of genocide: imperialism, nationalism, and the destruction of the Ottoman Armenians SN - 9780199226887 (pbk.) AV - DS195.5 .B66 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Armenian massacres, 1915-1923 KW - Armenian question KW - Genocide KW - Turkey KW - Armenia KW - History KW - 1901- KW - Foreign relations N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages [286]-311) and index ; 505 0 Genocide and the Armenian case -- Part 1: Mass murder in an international system -- Prologue: Eastern questions, nationalist answers -- Ethnic 'reprisal' and ethnic cleansing -- Interlude: the genocide in context -- Part 2: International response and responsibility in the genocide era -- Imperial Germany: a case of mistaken identity -- Ethnic violence and the entente, 1915-1923 -- Interlude: new minority questions in the new near east -- Part 3: From response to recognition? -- The USA: from non- intervention to non-recognition -- The geopolitics of memory N2 - 520 Between 1915-1916 approximately one million Armenian Christians were killed under the auspices of the Ottoman government. For nearly a century this genocide has either been ignored or not recognised for what it was. The author provides an explanation for why it happened and why it has subsequently been overlooked ER -