Burning Tigris The Armenian Genocide and America's Response

Name: Burning Tigris The Armenian Genocide and America's Response
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ISBN: 9780060558703

ISBN-10: 0060558709

ISBN-13: 9780060558703

Edition: 2003

Authors: Peter Balakian

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List price: $15.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/5/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 1.19" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Preface



The Emergence of International Human Rights in America: The Armenian Massacres in the 1890s



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 Woman'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 Turkish Road to Genocide



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



American Witness



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



The Failed Mission



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


Photograph and Map Acknowledgments


Glossary


Selected Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index


About the Author