The Burning Tigris

Author : Peter Balakian
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780061860171

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The Burning Tigris by Peter Balakian Pdf

A New York Times bestseller, The Burning Tigris is “a vivid and comprehensive account” (Los Angeles Times) of the Armenian Genocide and America’s response. Award-winning, critically acclaimed author Peter Balakian presents a riveting narrative of the massacres of the Armenians in the 1890s and of the Armenian Genocide in 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Turks. Using rarely seen archival documents and remarkable first-person accounts, Balakian presents the chilling history of how the Turkish government implemented the first modern genocide behind the cover of World War I. And in the telling, he resurrects an extraordinary lost chapter of American history. Awarded the Raphael Lemkin Prize for the best scholarly book on genocide by the Institute for Genocide Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY Graduate Center. “Timely and welcome. . . an overwhelmingly convincing retort to genocide deniers.” —New York Times Book Review “A story of multiplying horror and betrayal. . . . What happened to the Armenians in Turkey was a harbinger of the Holocaust and of the waves of modern mass murder that have swept the world ever since.” —Boston Globe “Encourages America to tap into a forgotten well of knowledge about the genocide and to revive its powerful impulse toward humanitarianism.” —New York Newsday

Author : Grigoris Balakian
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781400096770

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Armenian Golgotha by Grigoris Balakian Pdf

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is Balakian’s devastating eyewitness account—a haunting reminder of the first modern genocide and a controversial historical document that is destined to become a classic of survivor literature.

Author : Peter Balakian
Publisher : Heinemann Young Books
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0434885126

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Burning Tigris Proof by Peter Balakian Pdf

Author : Peter Balakian
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786743704

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Black Dog of Fate by Peter Balakian Pdf

In this tenth anniversary edition of his award-winning memoir, New York Times bestselling author Peter Balakian has expanded his compelling story about growing up in the baby-boom suburbs of the '50s and '60s and coming to understand what happened to his family in the first genocide of the twentieth century—the Ottoman Turkish government's extermination of more than one million Armenians in 1915. In this new edition, Balakian continues his exploration of the Armenian Genocide with new chapters about his journey to Aleppo and his trip to the Der Zor desert of Syria in his pursuit of his grandmother's life, bringing us closer to the twentieth century's first genocide.

Author : Taner Akçam
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691159560

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The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity by Taner Akçam Pdf

An unprecedented look at secret documents showing the deliberate nature of the Armenian genocide Introducing new evidence from more than 600 secret Ottoman documents, this book demonstrates in unprecedented detail that the Armenian Genocide and the expulsion of Greeks from the late Ottoman Empire resulted from an official effort to rid the empire of its Christian subjects. Presenting these previously inaccessible documents along with expert context and analysis, Taner Akçam's most authoritative work to date goes deep inside the bureaucratic machinery of Ottoman Turkey to show how a dying empire embraced genocide and ethnic cleansing. Although the deportation and killing of Armenians was internationally condemned in 1915 as a "crime against humanity and civilization," the Ottoman government initiated a policy of denial that is still maintained by the Turkish Republic. The case for Turkey's "official history" rests on documents from the Ottoman imperial archives, to which access has been heavily restricted until recently. It is this very source that Akçam now uses to overturn the official narrative. The documents presented here attest to a late-Ottoman policy of Turkification, the goal of which was no less than the radical demographic transformation of Anatolia. To that end, about one-third of Anatolia's 15 million people were displaced, deported, expelled, or massacred, destroying the ethno-religious diversity of an ancient cultural crossroads of East and West, and paving the way for the Turkish Republic. By uncovering the central roles played by demographic engineering and assimilation in the Armenian Genocide, this book will fundamentally change how this crime is understood and show that physical destruction is not the only aspect of the genocidal process.

Author : Ronald Grigor Suny
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400865581

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"They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else" by Ronald Grigor Suny Pdf

A definitive history of the 20th century's first major genocide on its 100th anniversary Starting in early 1915, the Ottoman Turks began deporting and killing hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the first major genocide of the twentieth century. By the end of the First World War, the number of Armenians in what would become Turkey had been reduced by 90 percent—more than a million people. A century later, the Armenian Genocide remains controversial but relatively unknown, overshadowed by later slaughters and the chasm separating Turkish and Armenian interpretations of events. In this definitive narrative history, Ronald Suny cuts through nationalist myths, propaganda, and denial to provide an unmatched account of when, how, and why the atrocities of 1915–16 were committed. Drawing on archival documents and eyewitness accounts, this is an unforgettable chronicle of a cataclysm that set a tragic pattern for a century of genocide and crimes against humanity.

Author : Thea Halo
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429974769

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Not Even My Name by Thea Halo Pdf

A riveting account of exile from Turkish genocide, brought to light for the first time ever in Sano Halo's personal story Not Even My Name exposes the genocide carried out during and after WW I in Turkey, which brought to a tragic end the 3000-year history of the Pontic Greeks (named for the Pontic Mountain range below the Black Sea). During this time, almost 2 million Pontic Greeks and Armenians were slaughtered and millions of others were exiled. Not Even My Name is the unforgettable story of Sano Halo's survival, as told to her daughter, Thea, and of their trip to Turkey in search of Sano's home 70 years after her exile. Sano Halo was a 10-year-old girl when she was torn from her ancient, pastoral way of life in the mountains and sent on a death march that annihilated her family. Stripped of everything she had ever held dear, even her name, Sano was sold by her surrogate family into marriage when still a child to a man three times her age. Not Even My Name follows Sano's marriage, the raising of her ten children in New York City, and her transformation as an innocent girl who was forced to move from a bucolic life to the 20th century in one bold stride. Written in haunting and eloquent prose, Not Even My Name weaves a seamless texture of individual and group memory, evoking all the suspense and drama of the best told tales.

Author : Peter Balakian
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780226207032

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Ozone Journal by Peter Balakian Pdf

"A sequel of sorts to "Ziggurat," published in the Phoenix Poets series in 2010, the title poem from "Ozone Journal" recounts the memory of the speaker's excavating the bones of Armenian genocide victims in the Syrian desert with a TV journalist crew in 2009. The speaker "dreams back," as it were, to the 1980s, when, as a young man in his thirties and caring for a young daughter after a recent divorce, he is having to juggle both personal and cultural/historical complexities living as a single parent in Manhattan. The poems create a montage that has the feel of history as lived experience, with the speaker struggling with the nature of memory as the poems move constantly back and forth to the Syrian desert, the dissolution of his marriage, visits and conversations with a cousin dying of AIDS, and encounters with famous jazz producers at Columbia Records to discuss music. In this book, Peter Balakian aims at the bigger picture of humanity's history of atrocity and trauma, but through short vignettes grounded in everyday situations, and in particular times and places"--Publisher's info.

Author : Vahakn N. Dadrian
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 1571816666

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The History of the Armenian Genocide by Vahakn N. Dadrian Pdf

Dadrian, a former professor at SUNY, Geneseo, currently directs a genocide study project supported by the Guggenheim Foundation. The present study analyzes the devastating wartime destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire as the cataclysmic culmination of a historical process involving the progressive Turkish decimation of the Armenians through intermittent and incremental massacres. In addition to the excellent general bibliography there is an annotated bibliography of selected books used in the study. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Donald E. Miller,Lorna Touryan Miller
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520219564

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Survivors by Donald E. Miller,Lorna Touryan Miller Pdf

"A superb work of scholarship and a deeply moving human document. . . . A unique work, one that will serve truth, understanding, and decency."—Roger W. Smith, College of William and Mary

Author : Peter Balakian
Publisher : Broadway
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0767902548

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Black Dog of Fate by Peter Balakian Pdf

A prize-winning poet explores the Armenian past that haunted his family's American identity--dark secrets marked by the Turkish government's extermination of more than a million Armenians in 1915.

Author : Heide Fehrenbach,Davide Rodogno
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107064706

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Humanitarian Photography by Heide Fehrenbach,Davide Rodogno Pdf

This book investigates the historical evolution of 'humanitarian photography' - the mobilization of photography in the service of humanitarian initiatives across state boundaries.

Author : Peter Balakian
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780226035666

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Ziggurat by Peter Balakian Pdf

In his first book of poems since his highly acclaimed June-tree, Peter Balakian continues to define himself as one of the most distinctive voices of his generation. Exploring history, self, and imagination, as well as his ongoing concerns with catastrophe and trauma, many of Balakian’s new poems wrestle with the aftermath and reverberations of 9/11. Whether reliving the building of the World Trade Towers in the inventive forty-three-section poem that anchors the book, walking the ruins of the Bosnian National Library in Sarajevo, meditating on Andy Warhol’s silk screens, or considering the confluence of music, language, and memory, Balakian continues his meditations on history, as well as on the harshness and beauty of contemporary life, that his readers have enjoyed over the years. In sensual, layered, and sometimes elliptical language, Balakian in Ziggurat explores absence, war, love, and art in a new age of American uncertainty.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Facing History & Ourselves National Foundation, Incorporated
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923
ISBN : UOM:39076002824105

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Crimes Against Humanity and Civilization by Anonim Pdf

Author : Benny Morris,Dror Ze’evi
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674916456

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The Thirty-Year Genocide by Benny Morris,Dror Ze’evi Pdf

From 1894 to 1924 three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region’s Christian minorities. Benny Morris and Dror Ze’evi’s impeccably researched account is the first to show that the three were actually part of a single, continuing, and intentional effort to wipe out Anatolia’s Christian population and create a pure Muslim nation.