The burning Tigris : the Armenian genocide and America's response /
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...
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| Μορφή: | Βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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New York :
Perennial,
c2004.
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- 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.
