America and the Armenian genocide of 1915 / edited by Jay Winter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Winter, J. M., editor.

Series:

Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare ; 15.

Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare ; 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923--Foreign public opinion, American.

Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923.

Genocide--Turkey--Public opinion.

Genocide.

Armenians--Turkey--History.

Armenians.

World War, 1914-1918.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 317 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

America & the Armenian Genocide of 1915

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Before Rwanda and Bosnia, and before the Holocaust, the first genocide of the twentieth century happened in Turkish Armenia in 1915, when approximately one million people were killed. This volume is an account of the American response to this atrocity. The first part sets up the framework for understanding the genocide: Sir Martin Gilbert, Vahakn Dadrian and Jay Winter provide an analytical setting for nine scholarly essays examining how Americans learned of this catastrophe and how they tried to help its victims. Knowledge and compassion, though, were not enough to stop the killings. A terrible precedent was born in 1915, one which has come to haunt the United States and other Western countries throughout the twentieth century and beyond. To read the essays in this volume is chastening: the dilemmas Americans faced when confronting evil on an unprecedented scale are not very different from the dilemmas we face today.

Contents:

Twentieth-century genocides / Sir Martin Gilbert

Under cover of war / Jay Winter

Armenian genocide / Vahakn N. Dadrian

Friend in power? / John Milton Cooper, Jr.

Wilsonian diplomacy and Armenia / Lloyd E. Ambrosius

American diplomatic correspondence in the age of mass murder / Rouben Paul Adalian

Armenian genocide and American missionary relief efforts / Suzanne E. Moranian

Mary Louise Graffam / Susan Billington Harper

From Ezra Pound to Theodore Roosevelt / Peter Balakian

Armenian genocide and US post-war commissions / Richard G. Hovannisian

Congress confronts the Armenian genocide / Donald A. Ritchie

When news is not enough / Thomas C. Leonard.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-107-14787-5

1-280-43768-5

0-511-16531-5

0-511-16575-7

0-511-16382-7

0-511-31273-3

0-511-49760-1

0-511-16462-9

OCLC:

123906037