Starving Armenians - America and the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1930 and After

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung The persecution and suffering of the Armenian people! a religious and cultural minority in the Ottoman Empire! reached a peak in the era of World War I. This text explores the American response to these atrocities! beginning with the initial reports to President Wilson from his Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire! Henry Morgenthau.

Product details

• Authors: Merrill D. Peterson
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2004
• EAN: 9780813922676
• ISBN: 978-0-8139-2267-6
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 216 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous