| The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response Contributor(s): Balakian, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060558709 ISBN-13: 9780060558703 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $14.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2004 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Middle East - General - History | Holocaust - History | United States - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 956.620 |
| Lexile Measure: 1400 |
| Physical Information: 1.27" H x 6.12" W x 8" (1.01 lbs) 528 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A History of International Human Rights and Forgotten Heroes In this national bestseller, the critically acclaimed author Peter Balakian brings us a riveting narrative of the massacres of the Armenians in the 1890s and of the Armenian Genocide in 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Turks. Using rarely seen archival documents and remarkable first-person accounts, Balakian presents the chilling history of how the Turkish government implemented the first modern genocide behind the cover of World War I. And in the telling, he resurrects an extraordinary lost chapter of American history. 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Balakian, Peter: - Peter Balakian is the author of Black Dog of Fate, winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Prize for Memoir and a New York Times Notable Book, and June-tree: New and Selected Poems 1974-2000. He is the recipient of many awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship. He holds a Ph.D. in American Civilization from Brown University and teaches at Colgate University, where he is a Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of the Humanities. |