Tanzimat fails to heal a fallen Empire: The unraveling of the Ottoman Empire that lead to the Armenian genocide of World War 1 (English Edition)

This book uncovers the attempt of the Ottoman bureaucracy to adopt the Tanzimat reforms (1839 to 1876) to encourage multi-ethnic nationalism between Christian minorities and Muslims. However, these nationalistic ideologies spawned segregated viewpoints that further divided the Ottoman populace well into the World War I period. With the birth of nationalistic views among Armenian Christians, and the newly formed Ottoman Young Turks, the presentation of a Muslim nationalistic view was to eradicate those they found a hindrance to the new public policy. This book uncovers these details analyzing events that lead up to the Armenian genocide and its cause starting from the Tanzimat reforms of the mid-19th century in the Ottoman Empire's attempt to be on par with the empires of Western Europe.