The British Empire and the Armenian genocide : humanitarianism and imperial politics from Gladstone to Churchill /

An estimated one million Armenians were killed in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire in 1915. Against the backdrop of World War I, reports of massacre, atrocity, genocide and exile sparked the largest global humanitarian response up to that date. Britain and its empire - the most powerful internat...

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Main Author: Tusan, Michelle Elizabeth, 1971- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2017.
Series:International library of twentieth century history ; 100.
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Table of Contents:
  • W.E. Gladstone and humanitarian intervention
  • The new diplomacy
  • Hamidian massacres and the media
  • Revolution, massacre and war in the Balkans
  • Genocide and the Great War
  • Saving "the remnant"
  • "Crimes against humanity"
  • Winston Churchill's Realpolitik
  • Conclusion: forgetting genocide.