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Imagining Armenia: Orientalism, Ambiguity and Intervention, 1879-1925

Contributor(s): Laycock, Joanne (Author)

ISBN: 9780719078170

Publisher: Manchester University Press

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Pub Date: March 1, 2009

Dewey: 947.5608

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 1.20" H x 8.60" L x 5.50" W ( 1.05 lbs) 272 pages

Series: Cultural History of Modern War

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Description: This book examines how Armenia and Armenians were portrayed in Britain at a decisive moment in modern history, when diplomats, scholars and humanitarians engaged with the past, present and future of Armenia.

Brief description: Joanne Laycock is Senior Lecturer in History at Sheffield Hallam University

Review Quotes: Significantly, Laycock's Imagining Armenia is an imaginative study of the permutations of the concept of the 'other' in relation to Britain and Armenia during a turbulent historical period, culminating in the First World War and the genocide of the Armenians.

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