| America and the Armenian Genocide of 1915 Contributor(s): Winter, Jay (Editor), Jay, Winter (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521071232 ISBN-13: 9780521071239 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $56.04 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2008 Annotation: This is an account of the American response to the Armenian genocide of 1915. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | World - General - History | Middle East - General |
| Dewey: 956.620 |
| Series: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 6" W x 9" (1.07 lbs) 332 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Long before Rwanda and Bosnia and the Holocaust, the first genocide of the twentieth century occurred in Turkish Armenia in 1915. The essays in this collection examine how Americans learned of this catastrophe and tried to help its victims. Knowledge and compassion, however, were not enough to stop the killings, and a terrible precedent was born in 1915. The Armenian genocide has haunted the U.S. and other Western countries throughout the twentieth century. |
Contributor Bio(s): Winter, Jay: - Jay Winter is Professor of History at Yale University, a former Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and the author of many books on the First World War. |