The Burning Tigris
Subtitle: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: September 30, 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780060198404
Copyright date: 2003
Subjects: Middle East - General; Political Science; Human rights; Middle East - History; U.S. Foreign Relations; History - General History; Modern - 20th Century; History: World; International Relations - General; History / United States / 20th Century; Foreign public opinion, American; Turkey; Armenian massacres, 1915-1923; Foreign public opinion, Americ; Genocide
First sentence: The light in New England in late fall is austere and clean and rinses the white steeples of Boston's Congregational and Unitarian churches, the red brick of the State House, and the gray stone of the Back Bay town houses.
Notes: "A history of international human rights and forgotten heroes" - cover.
PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction
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.
Table of contents: title: Gathering at Faneuil Hall; title: "There in the woods"; title: Yankees in Armenia; title: Sultan and the Armenian question; title: Killing fields: Massacres of the 1890s; title: Humanity on trial: Clara Barton and America's mission to Armenia; title: Walking skeletons; title: "The tears of Araxes": Voice of the Womans's journal; title: Ottoman bank incident and the aftermath of the Hamidian massacres; title: "Our boasted civilization": Intellectuals, popular culture, and the Armenian massacres of the 1890s; title: Rise of the young Turks; title: Adana, 1909: Counterrevolution and massacre; title: Balkan wars and World War I: Road to genocide; title: Government-planned genocide; title: Van, spring 1915; title: April 24; title: Ambassador at the crossroads; title: News from the American consul in Harput; title: Land of dead; title: From Jesse Jackson in Aleppo; title: "Same fate": Reports from all over Turkey; title: America's golden rule: Working for Armenia again; title: Wilson's quandary; title: Rise of a new Turkish nationalism and the campaign against Armenia; title: Turkish confessions: Ottoman courts-martial, Constantinople, 1919-1920; title: American mandate for Armenia; title: New U.S. oil policy in the Middle East and the turnabout on the Armenian question; title: Epilogue : Turkish denial of the Armenian genocide and U.S. complicity