The burning Tigris : the Armenian genocide and America's response /: the Armenian genocide and America's response. (2009)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- The burning Tigris : the Armenian genocide and America's response /: the Armenian genocide and America's response. (2009)
- Main Title:
- The burning Tigris : the Armenian genocide and America's response
- Further Information:
- Note: Peter Balakian.
- Other Names:
- Balakian, Peter, 1951-
- Contents:
- Gathering at Faneuil Hall -- "There in the woods" -- Yankees in Armenia -- Sultan and the Armenian question -- Killing fields: Massacres of the 1890s -- Humanity on trial: Clara Barton and America's mission to Armenia -- Walking skeletons -- "The tears of Araxes": Voice of the Womans's journal -- Ottoman bank incident and the aftermath of the Hamidian massacres -- "Our boasted civilization": Intellectuals, popular culture, and the Armenian massacres of the 1890s -- Rise of the young Turks -- Adana, 1909: Counterrevolution and massacre -- Balkan wars and World War I: Road to genocide -- Government-planned genocide -- Van, spring 1915 -- April 24 -- Ambassador at the crossroads -- News from the American consul in Harput -- Land of dead -- From Jesse Jackson in Aleppo -- "Same fate": Reports from all over Turkey -- America's golden rule: Working for Armenia again -- Wilson's quandary -- Rise of a new Turkish nationalism and the campaign against Armenia -- Turkish confessions: Ottoman courts-martial, Constantinople, 1919-1920 -- American mandate for Armenia -- New U.S. oil policy in the Middle East and the turnabout on the Armenian question -- Epilogue : Turkish denial of the Armenian genocide and U.S. complicity.
- Publisher Details:
- New York : HarperCollins e-books
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (528 pages)
- Subjects:
- 956.21
956.6/2015
History -- Modern -- 20th Century
Genocide
Human rights
Public opinion, American
Political Science -- International Relations -- General
Armenian massacres, 1915-1923
Armenian massacres, 1915-1923 -- Foreign public opinion, American
Genocide -- Turkey
Human rights
Turkey - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9780061860171
0061860174 - Related ISBNs:
- 9780060558703
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.250071
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