The best discussion on the topic is now Donald Bloxham, The Great Game of Genocide : Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians Nicholas Doumanis, Historical Journal a very important book... a comprehensive and complex explanation based on serious scholarship. It is not for those who want easy answers and facile assignments of blame. Modern Greek Studies an important and original contribution to the historiography of the Armenian genocide and to the analysis of its denial by the Turkish authorities. American Historical Review a work of critical historical inquiry of breathtaking and often disturbing clarity that nevertheless withstands the pitfalls of cynicism and unmediated moral outrage... essential reading for scholars of nationalism, the Ottoman Empire, modern Turkey, Europe and the Middle East. Nations and Nationalism a uniquely important contribution to a bitterly divided field of historical inquiry... certain to generate controversy in and of itself. Middle East Journal [a] meticulously researched study History For the most lucid and broad-minded analysis of 1915 and the period leading up to it, read The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians, a recent book by the young British historian Donald Bloxham. Salon In this book Bloxham provides a valuable corrective historical interpretation and a fascinating case study in the 'geopolitics of memory'. Anyone interested in Ottoman and imperial history, the fate of the Armenians, or genocide will find The Great Game of Genocide both informative and stimulating. David Cesarani, Literary Review ... a detailed and 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 Willian Rubinstein, The Times Higher
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is currently Lecturer in Twentieth-Century History at the University of Edinburgh. Previously he was a Leverhulme Special Research Fellow at the University of Southampton and Academic Research Director of the Holocaust Educational Trust.