The burning Tigris :
the Armenian genocide and America's response /
Peter Balakian.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
HarperCollins,
c2003.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Notes: | Dust jacket available. See entry for [Miscellaneous dust jackets removed from 4A Collection items] in the NLI catalogue. Includes bibliographical references (p. [441]-453) and index. Physical description: xx, 475 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. more |
| ISBN: | 0060198400 (acid-free paper) |
Table of 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.
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.
