| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxiv, 483 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [449]-465) and index. |
| Subject |
Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923.
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Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923 -- Foreign public opinion, American.
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Genocide -- Turkey.
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Human rights.
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| ISBN |
0060558709: $14.95 |
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9780060558703 |
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