| Description |
xii, 317 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare |
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Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare.
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| Contents |
Introduction: witness to genocide / Jay Winter -- 1. Twentieth-century genocides / Martin Gilbert -- 2. Under cover of war: the Armenian Genocide in the context of total war / Jay Winter -- 3. The Armenian Genocide: an interpretation / Vahakn N. Dadrian -- 4. A friend in power? Woodrow Wilson and Armenia / John Milton Cooper, Jr. -- 5. Wilsonian diplomacy and Armenia: the limits of power and ideology / Lloyd E. Ambrosius -- 6. American diplomatic correspondence in the age of mass murder: the Armenian Genocide in the US archives / Rouben Paul Adalian -- 7. The Armenian Genocide and American missionary relief efforts / Suzanne E. Moranian -- 8. Mary Louise Graffam: witness to genocide / Susan Billington Harper -- 9. From Ezra Pound to Theodore Roosevelt: American intellectual and cultural responses to the Armenian Genocide / Peter Balakian -- 10. The Armenian Genocide and US post-war commissions / Richard G. Hovannisian |
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11. Congress confronts the Armenian Genocide / Donald A. Ritchie -- 12. When news is not enough: American media and Armenian deaths / Thomas C. Leonard |
| Summary |
Before Rwanda and Bosnia, and before the Holocaust, the first genocide of the twentieth century happened in Turkish Armenia in 1915. Jay Winter has brought together a team of experts to examine how Americans learned of this catastrophe and how they tried to help its victims |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Genocide -- Turkey -- Public opinion.
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Genocide -- Turkey -- Foreign public opinion, American
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Armenian massacres, 1915-1923 -- Foreign public opinion, American
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Armenians -- Turkey -- History.
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World War, 1914-1918.
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| Author |
Winter, J. M.
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| LC no. |
2003046119 |
| ISBN |
0521829585 |
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