America and the Armenian Genocide of 1915
Title | America and the Armenian Genocide of 1915 PDF eBook |
Author | Jay Winter |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 335 |
Release | 2004-01-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1139450182 |
Before Rwanda and Bosnia, and before the Holocaust, the first genocide of the twentieth century happened in Turkish Armenia in 1915, when approximately one million people were killed. This volume is an account of the American response to this atrocity. The first part sets up the framework for understanding the genocide: Sir Martin Gilbert, Vahakn Dadrian and Jay Winter provide an analytical setting for nine scholarly essays examining how Americans learned of this catastrophe and how they tried to help its victims. Knowledge and compassion, though, were not enough to stop the killings. A terrible precedent was born in 1915, one which has come to haunt the United States and other Western countries throughout the twentieth century and beyond. To read the essays in this volume is chastening: the dilemmas Americans faced when confronting evil on an unprecedented scale are not very different from the dilemmas we face today.
Crimes Against Humanity and Civilization
Title | Crimes Against Humanity and Civilization PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Facing History & Ourselves National Foundation, Incorporated |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
The United States and the Armenian Genocide
Title | The United States and the Armenian Genocide PDF eBook |
Author | Julien Zarifian |
Publisher | Genocide, Political Violence |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2024-05-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781978837928 |
This is the first book to examine how and why the United States refused to officially acknowledge the 1915-17 Armenian Genocide until the early 2020s. Drawing from congressional records, rare newspapers, and interviews with lobbyists and decision-makers, historian Julien Zarifian reveals how genocide recognition became such a complex, politically sensitive issue.
Affirmation of the United States Record on the Armenian Genocide Resolution
Title | Affirmation of the United States Record on the Armenian Genocide Resolution PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations |
Publisher | |
Pages | 22 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923 |
ISBN |
The Spirit of the Laws
Title | The Spirit of the Laws PDF eBook |
Author | Taner Akçam |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 2015-07-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1782386246 |
Pertinent to contemporary demands for reparations from Turkey is the relationship between law and property in connection with the Armenian Genocide. This book examines the confiscation of Armenian properties during the genocide and subsequent attempts to retain seized Armenian wealth. Through the close analysis of laws and treaties, it reveals that decrees issued during the genocide constitute central pillars of the Turkish system of property rights, retaining their legal validity, and although Turkey has acceded through international agreements to return Armenian properties, it continues to refuse to do so. The book demonstrates that genocides do not depend on the abolition of the legal system and elimination of rights, but that, on the contrary, the perpetrators of genocide manipulate the legal system to facilitate their plans.
Armenian Golgotha
Title | Armenian Golgotha PDF eBook |
Author | Grigoris Balakian |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 578 |
Release | 2010-03-09 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1400096774 |
On April 24, 1915, Grigoris Balakian was arrested along with some 250 other leaders of Constantinople’s Armenian community. It was the beginning of the Ottoman Empire’s systematic attempt to eliminate the Armenian people from Turkey—a campaign that continued through World War I and the fall of the empire. Over the next four years, Balakian would bear witness to a seemingly endless caravan of blood, surviving to recount his miraculous escape and expose the atrocities that led to over a million deaths. Armenian Golgotha is Balakian’s devastating eyewitness account—a haunting reminder of the first modern genocide and a controversial historical document that is destined to become a classic of survivor literature.
"Starving Armenians"
Title | "Starving Armenians" PDF eBook |
Author | Merrill D. Peterson |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780813922676 |
Between 1915 and 1925 as many as 1.5 million Armenians, a minority in the Ottoman Empire, died in Ottoman Turkey, victims of execution, starvation, and death marches to the Syrian Desert. Peterson explores the American response to these atrocities, from initial reports to President Wilson until Armenia's eventual absorption into the Soviet Union.