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

by Merrill D. Peterson

Book Overview

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 at the hands of the Turks. Between 1915 and 1925 as many as 1.5 million Armenian men, women, and children died in Ottoman Turkey, victims of execution, starvation, and death marches to the Syrian desert.

In "Starving Armenians," Merrill Peterson explores the American response to these atrocities,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813922674
• ISBN13: 9780813922676
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 199 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 8.7"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher