The burning Tigris : the Armenian genocide and America's response Peter Balakian

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Balakian, Peter, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923.

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

Genocide--Turkey--Foreign public opinion, American.

Genocide.

Human rights.

Physical Description:

xx, 475 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : HarperCollins, c2003.

Contents:

A gathering at Faneuil Hall

"There in the woods"

Yankees in Armenia

The sultan and the Armenian question

Killing fields : the massacres of the 1890s

Humanity on trial : Clara Barton and America's mission to Armenia

Walking skeletons

"The tears of Araxes" : the voice of the Womans's journal

The Ottoman bank incident and the aftermath of the Hamidian massacres

"Our boasted civilization" : intellectuals, popular culture, and the Armenian massacres of the 1890s

The rise of the young Turks

Adana, 1909 : counterrevolution and massacre

The Balkan wars and World War I : the road to genocide

Government-planned genocide

Van, spring 1915

April 24

The ambassador at the crossroads

The 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

The rise of a new Turkish nationalism and the campaign against Armenia

Turkish confessions : the Ottoman courts-martial, Constantinople, 1919-1920

The American mandate for Armenia

The 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [441]-453) and index.

Local Notes:

The Balch Ethnic Studies Collection.

ISBN:

0060198400 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

51653350