The burning Tigris : the Armenian genocide and America's awakening to international human rights / Peter Balakian.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : HarperCollins, c2003.Description: xx, 475 pages : illustration, maps 25 cmISBN:
  • 60198400
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DS 195.5 .B182 2003
Summary: Presents a study of the Armenian genocide which began in the 1890s when Sultan Abdul Hamid II ordered the massacre of Armenians, and which recurred in 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Turks, and discusses the American response to the crisis and its implications for genocides in the twenty-first century.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [441]-453) and index.

Presents a study of the Armenian genocide which began in the 1890s when Sultan Abdul Hamid II ordered the massacre of Armenians, and which recurred in 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Turks, and discusses the American response to the crisis and its implications for genocides in the twenty-first century.

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