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090    DS195.5 |b.E27 1992
100 1  Earl, Hilary Camille, |d1963-
245 10 Eyewitness to genocide : |bHenry Morgenthau and the Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey, 1915 / |cHilary Camille Earl.
264  1 [Place of publication not identified] : |b[publisher not identified], |c1992.
300    iii, 170 pages
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
502    Thesis (M.A.)--University of New Brunswick, 1992.
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 164-169).
520    This thesis concerns the experiences of Henry Morgenthau (1856-1945) as United States Ambassador to Constantinople during the Armenian genocide in 1915. It is based on the materials and correspondence in the Personal Papers of Henry Morgenthau at the United States Archives in Washington and on Morgenthau's own writings of the period. Morgenthau was a German-Jewish immigrant to the United States who, after amassing a personal fortune in early life, was appointed by President Woodrow Wilson to be American Ambassador to Constantinople. He arrived in Turkey in time to witness the major events of the Armenian genocide. As the diplomatic representative of a large and neutral nation in this period of the First World War, Morgenthau was a figure of stature in the Turkish capital and had close acquaintance with the rulers of this Islamic nation. Using the definition of "genocide" developed in the United Nations convention on genocide in 1950 the thesis argues that the events of 1915 can be perceived as a genocidal occurrence. It concludes, however, that Morgenthau, through an escalation of language and description, misrepresented as "race extermination" what appears in reality to be an act of mass murder along nationalist, ethnic, and religious lines. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
530    Electronic version(s) |bavailable internally at USHMM.
533    Photocopy. |bAnn Arbor, Mich. : |cUMI Dissertation Services, |d1996. |e28 cm.
590    Dissertations and Theses
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
650  0 Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923.
600 10 Morgenthau, Henry, |d1856-1946.
956 41  |uhttp://dc.ushmm.org/library/bib28523/MM81500.pdf |zHosted by USHMM.
852 0   |bstacks |hDS195.5 |i.E27 1992
852     |bebook