The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response

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ISBN: 9780060558703 | 0060558709
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Copyright: 11/16/2009

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A "New York Times" bestseller, this masterful history of the Armenian massacres of the 1890s and the genocide of 195 is told from the view of American involvement in what was the first major international human rights movement in American history.

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Preface	p. xiii
The Emergence of International Human Rights in America: The Armenian Massacres in the 1890s
A Gathering at Faneuil Hall	p. 3
"There in the Woods"	p. 13
Yankees in Armenia	p. 23
The Sultan and the Armenian Question	p. 35
Killing Fields: The Massacres of the 1890s	p. 53
Humanity on Trial: Clara Barton and America's Mission to Armenia	p. 63
Walking Skeletons	p. 81
"The Tears of Araxes": The Voice of the Woman's Journal	p. 93
The Ottoman Bank Incident and the Aftermath of the Hamidian Massacres	p. 103
"Our Boasted Civilization": Intellectuals, Popular Culture, and the Armenian Massacres of the 1890s	p. 117
The Turkish Road to Genocide
The Rise of the Young Turks	p. 135
Adana, 1909: Counterrevolution and Massacre	p. 145
The Balkan Wars and World War I: The Road to Genocide	p. 159
Government-Planned Genocide	p. 175
Van, Spring 1915	p. 197
April 24	p. 211
American Witness
The Ambassador at the Crossroads	p. 219
The News from the American Consul in Harput	p. 225
Land of Dead	p. 241
From Jesse Jackson in Aleppo	p. 251
"Same Fate": Reports from All Over Turkey	p. 265
America's Golden Rule: Working for Armenia Again	p. 277
The Failed Mission
Wilson's Quandary	p. 299
The Rise of a New Turkish Nationalism and the Campaign Against Armenia	p. 319
Turkish Confessions: The Ottoman Courts-Martial, Constantinople, 1919-1920	p. 331
The American Mandate for Armenia	p. 349
The New U.S. Oil Policy in the Middle East and the Turnabout on the Armenian Question	p. 363
Epilogue: Turkish Denial of the Armenian Genocide and U.S. Complicity	p. 373
Notes	p. 393
Photograph and Map Acknowledgments	p. 435
Glossary	p. 437
Selected Bibliography	p. 441
Acknowledgments	p. 455
Index	p. 459
About the Author	p. 476
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