The British Empire and the Armenian Genocide: Humanitarianism and Imperial Politics from Gladstone to Churchill

by Michelle Tusan

Book Overview

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 internationalist institutional force at the time - played a key role in determining the global response to these events. This book considers the first attempt...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784533858
• ISBN13: 9781784533854
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.6"