| Description |
xiv, 199 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The ambassador's story -- Awakening -- Genocide -- Near East relief in war and peace -- Chaos, carnage, and survivors -- The great betrayal -- An Armenian American chronicle. |
| Summary |
"Between 1915 and 1925 as many as 1.5 million Armenian men, women, and children died in Ottoman Turkey, victims of execution, starvation, and death marches to the Syrian Desert." "In "Starving Armenians," Merrill Peterson explores the American response to these atrocities, beginning with the initial reports to President Wilson from his ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Henry Morgenthau, who described Turkey as "a place of horror." The West gradually began to take notice. As the New York Times carried stories about the "slow massacre of a race," public outrage over this tragedy led to an unprecedented philanthropic crusade spearheaded by Near East Relief, an organization rooted in Protestant missionary endeavors in the Near East and dedicated to saving the survivors of the first genocide of the twentieth century. The book also addresses the Armenian aspirations for an independent republic under American auspices; these hopes went unfulfilled in the peacemaking after the war and ended altogether when Armenia was absorbed into the Soviet Union."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923 -- Foreign public opinion, American.
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Genocide -- Turkey -- Foreign public opinion, American.
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Armeniërs.
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Genocide.
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Berichtgeving.
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Armenier. (DE-588)4085933-2
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Völkermord. (DE-588)4063690-2
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United States. (DE-588)4078704-7
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Völkermord.
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United States.
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Armenier.
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| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1915-1930
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Geschichte 1915-1930.
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| ISBN |
0813922674 (cloth: alkaline paper) |
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9780813922676 (cloth: alkaline paper) |
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