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020 _a9780199226887 (pbk.)
020 _a0199226881|q(pbk.)
050 _aDS195.5
_b.B66 2009
100 _aBloxham, Donald,
245 _aThe great game of genocide :
_bimperialism, nationalism, and the destruction of the Ottoman Armenians /
_cDonald Bloxham
246 _aImperialism, nationalism, and the destruction of the Ottoman Armenians
260 _aOxford :
_bOxford University Press,
_c2009
300 _axiv, 329 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
_billustrations ;
_c23 cm
500 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [286]-311) and index
505 _a505 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
520 _a520 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
650 _aArmenian massacres, 1915-1923
650 _aArmenian question
650 _aGenocide
_zTurkey
651 _eArmenia
_xHistory
_y1901-
651 _eTurkey
_xForeign relations
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_cBK