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Zusatztext ..a detailed & sophisticated account..This first class work offers much new material and is probably the most detailed and complex account in English of these terrible events Informationen zum Autor Donald Bloxham is Lecturer in Twentieth Century History at the University of Edinburgh. Tony Kushner is Marcus Sieff Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Southampton Klappentext Approximately one million Armenian Christians were killed in 1915-16 under the auspices of the Ottoman government. For nearly a century this genocide has either been ignored or not recognized for what it was. In this book Donald Bloxham provides an explanation for why it happened and why it has subsequently been overlooked, and offers a new interpretation which places the genocide firmly in the context of international history. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Genocide and the Armenian Case Part I: Mass Murder in an International System 1: Prologue: Eastern Questions, Nationalist Answers 2: Ethnic Reprisal and Ethnic Cleansing Chapter Interlude The Genocide in Context International Response and Responsibility in the Genocide Era 3: Imperial Germany: A Case of Mistaken Identity 4: Ethnic Violence and the Entente 1915-23 5: New Minority Questions in the New Near East Part III: From Response to Recognition? 6: The USA: From Non-Intervention to Non-Recognition Epilogue: the geopolitics of memory ...
