Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Preface; Chapter 1. British Policies toward the Ottoman Empire and its Christian Minorities, 1830s-1870s; 1. The Formation of Great Britain's Near Eastern Policy; 2. The Formation of Great Britain's Policy Toward the Christian Subjects of the Ottoman Empire; 3. Britain and the Near Eastern Crisis of the 1850s; 4. British Diplomacy and the Protection of the Christian Minorities in the Ottoman Empire, 1850s- 1870s; Chapter 2. Western Armenia and British Policy During the Middle Eastern Crisis of 1875-78; 1. British Diplomacy and the Balkan Question, 1875-77; 2. The Condition of Western Armenians during the Near Eastern Crisis, as relayed in British Foreign Office papers; 3. British Policy during the 1877-78 Russian-Turkish War and the Armenian Question; 4. The Armenian Question in British and European Foreign Policy: From San Stefano to Berlin; Chapter 3. The Issue of the Armenian Reforms and British Government Policies, 1878-92; 1. The Policy of the Conservative Government on the Armenian Question, 1878-80; 2. The Gladstone Cabinet and the Issue of Reforms in 1880-85; 3. British Diplomacy and the Armenian Question in 1885-92; Chapter 4. The British Government's Policies before and during the Near Eastern Crisis of the 1890s; 1. The Gladstone Cabinet and the Armenian Question, 1892-94; 2. The Rosebery Cabinet's Reaction to the 1894 Massacre in Sasun and the May 1895 Reforms Program; 3. The Armenian Question and the Salisbury Government in June-September 1895; 4. The British-German Negotiations of 1895 and the Armenian Question; 5. The Massacres of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and British Diplomacy, September 1895- August 1896; 6. Massacre of the Armenians in Constantinople, 1896; 7. The British-Russian Negotiations of 1896 and the Armenian Question; 8. The Position of the Salisbury Cabinet on the Armenian Question During the Final Phase of the Near Eastern Crisis; 9. The Interaction of British Foreign Policy and Domestic Public Opinion on the Armenian Question; Chapter 5. The Policy of Great Britain and the Armenian Question on the Eve of the World War I; 1. British Diplomacy and the Ottoman Empire, 1900-1914; 2. British Diplomacy and the Issue of the Armenian Reforms, 1912-14; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index. Index

About the Author

Ann Oakley is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy and Director of the Social Science Research Unit at the Institute of Education, University of London. She has published many books, most recently Experiments in Knowing and Gender on Planet Earth. She is also Richard Titmuss's daughter and literary executor and has co-edited two earlier reissues of his work, The Gift Relationship and Welfare and Wellbeing, as well as a book about her parents' early work, Man and Wife. Jonathan Barker is a sociologist and consumer researcher who has focused on issues of social and health policy and has conducted research on ageing and later life. Currently director of Far-sight Research, his published works include Black and Asian Older People in Britain and Our Future Elders.