: Some essays explore the understudied deterioration of local communal relations in Anatolia during the 19th century, which set the stage for later violence.

: The book situates the genocide within the broader chaos of World War I and the collapse of the multicultural Ottoman identity.

: Scholars examine how and why the Young Turk government (the Committee of Union and Progress) ordered and implemented the mass deportations and massacres.

The book is a landmark scholarly collaboration that explores the massacres and deportations of Armenians during the final years of the Ottoman Empire. Edited by Ronald Grigor Suny, Fatma Müge Göçek, and Norman M. Naimark, it was published by Oxford University Press in 2011. A Breakthrough in Scholarship