| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xx, 475 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [441]-453) and index. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
0060198400 (acid-free paper) |
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