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The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response by Balakian, P
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- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Intended Audience
- Adult
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- ISBN
- 9780060198404
- Book Title
- Burning Tigris : the Armenian Genocide and America's Response
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Genre
- History, Political Science
- Topic
- Europe / Eastern, United States / 20th Century, Human Rights, Modern / 20th Century, Genocide & War Crimes, General
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 29 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 496 Pages
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Awarded the Raphael Lemkin Prize for the best scholarly book on genocide by the Institute for Genocide Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY Graduate Center. In this groundbreaking history of the Armenian Genocide, the critically acclaimed author of the memoir Black Dog of Fate brings us a riveting narrative of the massacres of the Armenians in the 1890s and genocide in 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Turks. Using rarely seen archival documents and remarkable first-person accounts, Peter Balakian presents the chilling history of how the Young Turk government implemented the first modern genocide behind the cover of World War I. And in the telling, he also resurrects an extraordinary lost chapter of American history. During the United States' ascension in the global arena at the turn of the twentieth century, America's humanitarian movement for Armenia was an important part of the rising nation's first epoch of internationalism. Intellectuals, politicians, diplomats, religious leaders, and ordinary citizens came together to try to save the Armenians. The Burning Tigris reconstructs this landmark American cause that was spearheaded by the passionate commitments and commentaries of a remarkable cast of public figures, including Julia Ward Howe, Clara Barton, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Ambassador Henry Morgenthau, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Alice Stone Blackwell, Stephen Crane, and Ezra Pound, as well as courageous missionaries, diplomats, and relief workers who recorded their eyewitness accounts and often risked their lives in the killing fields of Armenia. The crisis of the "starving Armenians" was so embedded in American popular culture that, in an age when a loaf of bread cost a nickel, the American people sent more than $100 million in aid through the American Committee on Armenian Atrocities and its successor, Near East Relief. In 1915 alone, the New York Times published 145 articles about the Armenian Genocide. Theodore Roosevelt called the extermination of the Armenians "the greatest crime of the war." But in the turmoil following World War I, it was a crime that went largely unpunished. In depicting the 1919 Ottoman court-martial trials, Balakian reveals the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide confessing their guilt -- an astonishing fact given the Turkish government's continued denial of the Genocide. After World War I, U.S. oil interests in the Middle East steered America away from the course it had pursued for four decades. As Balakian eloquently points out, America's struggle between human rights and national self-interest -- a pattern that would be repeated again and again -- resonates powerfully today. In crucial ways, America's involvement with the Armenian Genocide is a paradigm for the modern age.
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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0060198400
ISBN-13
9780060198404
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2464594
Product Key Features
Book Title
Burning Tigris : the Armenian Genocide and America's Response
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Europe / Eastern, United States / 20th Century, Human Rights, Modern / 20th Century, Genocide & War Crimes, General
Publication Year
2003
Genre
History, Political Science
Number of Pages
496 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
29 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ds195.5.B353 2003
Reviews
An Eloquent Account of Turkey's Long Campaign to Rid Itself of Armenians....Thoroughly Convincing., The terrible fate of the Armenians... is brilliantly described. A great service to the history of the Armenians.", The Burning Tigris is an act of acute historical memory, of personal testimony, of prophetic witness - and of high art.
Copyright Date
2003
Lccn
2003-044986
Dewey Decimal
956.6/2015
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
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Yes
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