Description
Book SynopsisThis 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. -- .
Trade ReviewSignificantly, 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. -- .
Table of ContentsIntroduction From cradle of civilisation to victim nation: Britain and Armenia 1875 - 1925
1. Imagining Armenia: Otherness, orientalism and ambiguity
2. The boundary of the civilised world? Images of Armenia during the late nineteenth century
3. ‘The murder of a nation’ Representing the Armenian genocide of 1915
4. Armenian Refugees: Representation, relief and repatriation
5. Post-War Armenia: Visions, realities and responses
Conclusions The Armenian past, present and future in the British imagination
