The burning Tigris : the Armenian genocide and America's response /: the Armenian genocide and America's response. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• 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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