Bibliograph

America and the Armenian genocide of 1915, edited by Jay Winter

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America and the Armenian genocide of 1915, edited by Jay Winter

Language

eng

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

America and the Armenian genocide of 1915

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

80244663

Responsibility statement

edited by Jay Winter

Series statement

Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare, 15Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Summary

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.--, Provided by publisher

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