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GREAT GAME OF GENOCIDE: Imperialism, Nationalism, and Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians
Oxford University Press

GREAT GAME OF GENOCIDE: Imperialism, Nationalism, and Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians

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By Donald Bloxham

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.

Oxford University Press (2007)