<ul> <li> There have been to date no other contributions to the field of late Ottoman studies and Armenian studies based on an approach of the kind I take in my book.</li> <li> I am not aware of any scholarly monograph or even essay that takes the Armenian Genocide as the object of a microhistorical study.</li> <li> My book takes a vivid first person account and frames it in a scholarly discussion that clarifies its broader import.</li></ul><br />