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

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Balakian, Peter 1951- (συγγραφέας.)
• Μορφή: Βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York : Perennial, c2004.
• Θέματα: Γενοκτονία των Αρμενίων, 1915-1923; Ανθρώπινα δικαιώματα

 A History of International Human Rights and Forgotten Heroes In this national bestseller, the critically acclaimed author Peter Balakian brings us a riveting narrative of the massacres of the Armenians in the 1890s and of the Armenian Genocide in 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Turks. Using rarely seen archival documents and remarkable first-person accounts, Balakian presents the chilling history of how the Turkish government implemented the first modern genocide behind the cover of World War I. And in the telling, he resurrects an extraordinary lost chapter of American history. Awarded the Raphael Lemkin Prize for the best scholarly book on genocide by the Institute for Genocide Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY Graduate Center. 

 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.