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The burning Tigris, the Armenian genocide and America's awakening to international human rights, Peter Balakian

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The burning Tigris, the Armenian genocide and America's awakening to international human rights, Peter Balakian
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [441]-453) and index
Illustrations
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Index
index present
resource.interestGradeLevel
Adult
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The burning Tigris
Nature of contents
bibliography
resource.references
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Responsibility statement
Peter Balakian
Sub title
the Armenian genocide and America's awakening to international human rights
Summary
Presents a study of the Armenian genocide which began in the 1890s when Sultan Abdul Hamid II ordered the massacre of Armenians, and which recurred in 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Turks, and discusses the American response to the crisis and its implications for genocides in the twenty-first century
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