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America and the Armenian Genocide of 1915

America and the Armenian Genocide of 1915

America and the Armenian Genocide of 1915

America and the Armenian Genocide of 1915

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521071239
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 08/28/2008
Series: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare , #15
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 332
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Witness to genocide Jay Winter; Part I. The Framework: 1. Twentieth-century genocides Sir Martin Gilbert; 2. Genocide in the perspective of total war Jay Winter; 3. The Armenian genocide: an interpretation Vahakn N. Dadrian; Part II. During the Catastrophe: 4. A friend in power? Woodrow Wilson and Armenia John Milton Cooper; 5. Wilsonian diplomacy and Armenia: the limits of power and ideology Lloyd E. Ambrosius; 6. American diplomatic correspondence in the age of mass murder: documents of the Armenian Genocide in the U.S. Archives Rouben Paul Adalian; 7. The Armenian genocide and American missionary relief efforts Suzanne 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; Part III. After the Catastrophe: 10. The Armenian genocide and US postwar commissions Richard G. Hovannisian; 11. Congress confronts the Armenian genocide Donald A. Ritchie; 12. When news is not enough: American media and Armenian deaths Thomas C. Leonard.
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