First Published in 1993. This book is about the Armenians but it is also about the diplomats, missionaries and politicians whose interests and involvement helped to create the Armenian question in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. It is also about public opinion, and particularly the religious and racial biases that were usually carried into any discussion of Ottoman affairs.
Introduction; Part 1 The Religious Question;
Chapter 1 Imperialism and
the Christian Polemic;
Chapter 2 Christians Under the Ottoman Yoke;
Chapter
3 The Missionary Impact; Part 2 The Political Synthesis;
Chapter 4 War,
Reform and the Armenians;
Chapter 5 The Chains Must Be Broken; Part 3 The
Consequences;
Chapter 6 Insurrection in the East;
Chapter 7 The Ambassadors
Propose;
Chapter 8 Reform and Chaos;
Chapter 9 The Missionary Meddlers;
Part 4 The Reaction;
Chapter 10 The Armenian Agitation;
Chapter 11 The Powers
Dispose;
Chapter 12 The View from Yildiz: Who Has Conceived Such Wicked
Lies?; epilogue Epilogue;
Jeremy Salt, Bilkent University
