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The Great War and the tragedy of Anatolia: Turks and Armenians in the maelstrom of major powers (Publications of Turkish Historical Society. Serial XVI) - Softcover
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- PublisherTurkish Historical Society Printing House
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 9751612276
- ISBN 13 9789751612274
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages221
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THE GREAT WAR AND THE TRAGEDY OF ANATOLIA. Turks and Armenians in the maelstrom of major powers
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ISBN 13: 9789751612274
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The Great War and the tragedy of Anatolia: Turks and Armenians in the maelstrom of major powers (Publications of Turkish Historical Society. Serial XVI)
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ISBN 13: 9789751612274
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. PREFACE It is becoming more evident from primary documents preserved in the various European, American and Ottoman archives, now made available to researchers and the public, that long before the outbreak of the First World War the major Powers, such as Russia, Britain, France, Germany and others, were vying with one another in order to gain ascendance and in?uence in the Near and Middle East. The main contry which in both the economic and military sense, became their arena of con?ict, before, during and after the war, was the Ottoman Empire. The ambitions of these Powers were directed towards in?ltration into that empire in order to exploit its vast and practically untouched resources, and to in- corporate it into their orbit of economic and other in?uence. One of the main re- sources that made this venture attractive to them was oil. They were so keen to pos- sess this rare liquid mineral that they were perfectly willing to indulge in acute competition, even to the extent of armed con?ict, in order to possess the vast oil resources of the Middle East. In fact, one of the chief causes of the First World War was this internecine economic competition among such Powers.' It was mainly for economic reasons that the major expansionist Powers, from the early part of the nineteenth century onwards, began to send to the Ottoman territories travelers, missionaries, and various other agents, in the guise of diplomats, and through them to map the areas of strategic and economic importance, and to establish relations with Ottoman Christian and Muslim communities which they could exploit and use in their designs. It did not take them long to discover B21. Seller Inventory # 000238
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