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Author: Anna Geifman
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
ISBN: 0275997529
Size: 27.56 MB
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Release Date: 2010
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Death Orders eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This fascinating study shows how terrorism as developed and practiced in Romanov Russia has, over the past century, manifested itself as the template for modern and postmodern terrorism as a universal sociocultural, psychological, and existential experience, irrespective of particular political causes, ethnic distinctions, and ideological boundaries. * Offers data based on extensive archival and primary research * Includes citations from numerous original sources found in Russian, American, European, and Israeli depositories * Provides a comprehensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources

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Book Detail:
Author: Anna Geifman
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
ISBN: 0275997537
Size: 24.75 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2010-05-20
Category: Political Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Death Orders The Vanguard Of Modern Terrorism In Revolutionary Russia eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This fascinating study shows how terrorism as developed and practiced in Romanov Russia has, over the past century, manifested itself as the template for modern and postmodern terrorism as a universal sociocultural, psychological, and existential experience, irrespective of particular political causes, ethnic distinctions, and ideological boundaries. • Offers data based on extensive archival and primary research • Includes citations from numerous original sources found in Russian, American, European, and Israeli depositories • Provides a comprehensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources

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Book Detail:
Author: Anna Geifman
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691221456
Size: 44.34 MB
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Release Date: 2020-11-10
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Thou Shalt Kill eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Anna Geifman examines the explosion of terrorist activity that took place in the Russian empire from the years just prior to the turn of the century through 1917, a period when over 17,000 people were killed or wounded by revolutionary extremists. On the basis of new research, she argues that a multitude of assassination attempts, bombings, ideologically motivated robberies, and incidents of armed assault, kidnapping, extortion, and blackmail for party purposes played a primary role in the revolution of 1905 and early twentieth-century Russian political history in general.

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Author: Gary Saul Morson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674293444
Size: 35.31 MB
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Release Date: 2023-05-16
Category: Literary Criticism
Language: en
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Download PDF Wonder Confronts Certainty eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A noted literary scholar traverses the Russian canon, exploring how realists, idealists, and revolutionaries debated good and evil, moral responsibility, and freedom. Since the age of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov, Russian literature has posed questions about good and evil, moral responsibility, and human freedom with a clarity and intensity found nowhere else. In this wide-ranging meditation, Gary Saul Morson delineates intellectual debates that have coursed through two centuries of Russian writing, as the greatest thinkers of the empire and then the Soviet Union enchanted readers with their idealism, philosophical insight, and revolutionary fervor. Morson describes the Russian literary tradition as an argument between a radical intelligentsia that uncompromisingly followed ideology down the paths of revolution and violence, and writers who probed ever more deeply into the human condition. The debate concerned what Russians called “the accursed questions”: If there is no God, are good and evil merely human constructs? Should we look for life’s essence in ordinary or extreme conditions? Are individual minds best understood in terms of an overarching theory or, as Tolstoy thought, by tracing the “tiny alternations of consciousness”? Exploring apologia for bloodshed, Morson adapts Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of the non-alibi—the idea that one cannot escape or displace responsibility for one’s actions. And, throughout, Morson isolates a characteristic theme of Russian culture: how the aspiration to relieve profound suffering can lead to either heartfelt empathy or bloodthirsty tyranny. What emerges is a contest between unyielding dogmatism and open-minded dialogue, between heady certainty and a humble sense of wonder at the world’s elusive complexity—a thought-provoking journey into inescapable questions.

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Book Detail:
Author: Gordon M. Hahn
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476644349
Size: 64.49 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2021-11-17
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF The Russian Dilemma eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. From the end of the Mongol Empire to today, Russian history is a tale of cultural, political, economic and military interaction with Western powers. The depth of this relationship has created a geopolitical dilemma: Russia has persistently been both attracted to and at odds with Western ideas and technological development, which have tended to threaten Russia's sense of identity and create destabilizing divisions within society. Simultaneously, deepening involvement in Western international affairs brought meddling in Russian domestic politics and military invasion. This book examines how the centuries-old Western threat has shaped Russia's political and strategic structures, creating a culture of security rooted in vigilance against Western influence and interference.

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Book Detail:
Author: James Crossland
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526160684
Size: 47.49 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2023-01-31
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF The Rise Of Devils eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. 'Punctuated by the stories of a host of interesting and extraordinary characters, Crossland has produced a fascinating exploration of the long nineteenth century’s development of terrorism and counterterrorism, highlighting the role of fear and the paranoia, repression, and overreaction it engendered.' Michael Stohl, Professor at the University of California Author of Crime and Terrorism 'By applying an innovative historical lens, The Rise of the Devils by James Crossland offers a remarkable perspective on the history of terrorism that is not overdetermined by the events of 9/11 and explores a "violent strain of nihilism intoxicated by a whiff of martyrdom." The book reads like the prequel to the "National Treasure" movie franchise and offers a completely unique understanding of Terrorism’s First Wave.' Mia Bloom, Georgia State University Author of Dying to Kill: the Allure of Suicide Terror In the dying light of the nineteenth century, the world came to know and fear terrorism. Much like today, this was a time of progress and dread, in which breakthroughs in communications and weapons were made, political reforms were implemented and immigration waves bolstered the populations of ever-expanding cities. This era also simmered with political rage and social inequalities, which drove nationalists, nihilists, anarchists and republicans to dynamite cities and discharge pistols into the bodies of presidents, police chiefs and emperors. This wave of terrorism was seized upon by an outrage-hungry press that peddled hysteria, conspiracy theories and, sometimes, fake news in response, convincing many a reader that they were living through the end of days. Against the backdrop of this world of fear and disorder, The rise of devils chronicles the journeys of the men and women who evoked this panic and created modern terrorism – revolutionary philosophers, cult leaders, criminals and charlatans, as well as the paranoid police chiefs and unscrupulous spies who tried to thwart them. In doing so, this book explains how radicals once thought just in their causes became, as Pope Pius IX denounced them, little more than ‘devils risen up from Hell’.

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Book Detail:
Author: Peter N. Stearns
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429639848
Size: 40.39 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2020-10-13
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF The Routledge History Of Death Since 1800 eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The Routledge History of Death Since 1800 looks at how death has been treated and dealt with in modern history – the history of the past 250 years – in a global context, through a mix of definite, often quantifiable changes and a complex, qualitative assessment of the subject. The book is divided into three parts, with the first considering major trends in death history and identifying widespread patterns of change and continuity in the material and cultural features of death since 1800. The second part turns to specifically regional experiences, and the third offers more specialized chapters on key topics in the modern history of death. Historical findings and debates feed directly into a current and prospective assessment of death, as many societies transition into patterns of ageing that will further alter the death experience and challenge modern reactions. Thus, a final chapter probes this topic, by way of introducing the links between historical experience and current trajectories, ensuring that the book gives the reader a framework for assessing the ongoing process, as well as an understanding of the past. Global in focus and linking death to a variety of major developments in modern global history, the volume is ideal for all those interested in the multifaceted history of how death is dealt with in different societies over time and who want access to the rich and growing historiography on the subject. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license at https://tandfbis.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9780429028274_oachapter1.pdf.

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Book Detail:
Author: Robert W. Schaefer
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
ISBN: 0313386358
Size: 66.97 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2010-10-31
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF The Insurgency In Chechnya And The North Caucasus eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The Insurgency in Chechnya and the North Caucasus: From Gazavat to Jihad is an exhaustive treatment of the 400-year period leading up to the present. Thematically organized, it cuts through the rhetoric to provide a contextual framework through which readers can understand the conflict in the region.||Among many other topics, the book examines the differences and linkages between insurgency and terrorism; the origins of conflict in the North Caucasus; the involvement of the superpowers from the 17th century on; and the influences of different strains of Islam, of al-Qaida, and of the War on Terror. A critical examination of never-before-revealed Russian COIN campaigns explains why those campaigns are doomed to fail and why such failure means war will once again rage in the south of Russia. Presented through the lens of counterinsurgency theory, this incisive analysis explores the historic roots of each issue, the key players, and the farthest-reaching effects. |

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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198863500
Size: 52.95 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2020-09
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Download PDF Killing Strangers eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A bewildering feature of so much contemporary political violence is its stunning impersonality, with every city centre a potential shooting gallery; every metro system a potential bomb alley. Killing Strangers explores how acts of political violence have changed over time, becoming 'unchained' from inter-personal relationships.

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Book Detail:
Author: James Harris
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0199655669
Size: 51.54 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2013-07-11
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF The Anatomy Of Terror eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. An edited volume which brings together the work of the leading historians on the subject of Stalin's Terror in the 1930s, underpinning new, innovative approaches and opening new perspectives in the field.

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Book Detail:
Author: Parker Thomas David
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 1783266562
Size: 24.75 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2019-06-17
Category: Law
Language: en
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Download PDF Avoidingtheterroristtrap Whyrespectforhumanrightsisthekeytodefeatingterrorism eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. For more than 150 years, Nationalist, Populist, Marxist and Islamist terrorists have all been remarkably consistent and explicit about their aims: Provoke the State into over-reacting to the threat they pose, then take advantage of the divisions in society that result. Faced with a major terrorist threat, States seem to reach instinctively for the most coercive tools in their arsenal and, in doing so, risk exacerbating the situation. This policy response seems to be driven in equal parts by a lack of understanding of the true nature of the threat, an exaggerated faith in the use of force, and a lack of faith that democratic values are sufficiently flexible to allow for an effective counter-terrorism response. Drawing on a wealth of data from both historical and contemporary sources, Avoiding the Terrorist Trap addresses common misconceptions underpinning flawed counter-terrorist policies, identifies the core strategies that guide terrorist operations, consolidates the latest research on the underlying drivers of terrorist violence, and demonstrates how a comprehensive and coherent counter-terrorism strategy grounded in respect for human rights and the rule of law is the only truly effective approach to defeating terrorism.

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Book Detail:
Author: Richard Spence
Publisher: TrineDay
ISBN: 163424124X
Size: 76.62 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2017-06-07
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Wall Street And The Russian Revolution eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Wall Street and the Russian Revolution will give readers critical insight into what might be called the "Secret History of the 20th century." The Russian Revolution, like the war in which it was born, represents the real beginning of the modern world. The book will look not just at the sweep of events, but probe the economic, ideological and personal motivations of the key figures involved, revealing heretofore unknown or misunderstood connections. Was Trotsky, for instance, a political genius, an unprincipled egomaniac, or something of each? Readers should come away with not only a far deeper understanding of what happened in Russia a century ago, but also what happened in America and how that still shapes the relations of the twocountries today.

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Book Detail:
Author: Iva Glisic
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
ISBN: 1501757741
Size: 25.47 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2018-10-26
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF The Futurist Files eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Book Detail:
Author: Carola Dietze
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019985856X
Size: 43.80 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2021
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF The Oxford Handbook Of The History Of Terrorism eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "The Oxford Handbook of the History of Terrorism presents a re-evaluation of the major narratives in the history of terrorism, exploring the emergence and the use of terrorism in world history from antiquity up to the twenty-first century. The volume presents terrorism as a historically specific form of political violence that was generated by modern Western culture and then transported around the globe, where it interacted with and was transformed in accordance with local conditions. It offers cogent arguments and well-documented case studies that support a reading of terrorism as a modern phenomenon, as well as sustained analyses of the challenges involved in the application of the theories and practices of modernity and terrorism to non-Western parts of the world, both for historical actors and academic commentators. The volume presents an overview of terrorism's antecedents in the pre-modern world, analyzes the emergence of terrorism in the West, and presents a series of case studies from non-Western parts of the world that together constitute terrorism's global reception history. Essays cover a broad range of topics from tyrannicide in ancient Greek political culture, the radical resistance movement against Roman rule in Judea, the invention of terrorism in Europe, Russia, and the United States, anarchist networks in France, Argentina, and China, imperial terror in Colonial Kenya, anti-colonial violence in India, Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, and the German Autumn, to right-wing, religious and eco-terrorism, as well as terrorism's entanglements with science, technology, media, literature and art. Keywords: terrorism studies, terrorism, history of terrorism, history of violence, radicalism, global history, transnational history, international history, modernity, modernization, modernism"--

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Book Detail:
Author: Randall D. Law
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745690939
Size: 80.81 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2016-09-01
Category: Political Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Terrorism eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. We live in an era dominated by terrorism but struggle to understand its meaning and the real nature of the threat. In this new edition of his widely acclaimed survey of the topic, Randall Law makes sense of the history of terrorism by examining it within its broad political, religious and social contexts and tracing its development from the ancient world to the 21st century. In Terrorism: A History, Law reveals how the very definition of the word has changed, how the tactics and strategies of terrorism have evolved, and how those who have used it adapted to revolutions in technology, communications, and political ideologies. Terrorism: A History extensively covers such topics as jihadist violence, state terror, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, Northern Ireland, anarcho-terrorism, and the Ku Klux Klan, plus lesser known movements in Uruguay and Algeria, as well as the pre-modern uses of terror in ancient Rome, medieval Europe, and the French Revolution. This thoroughly revised edition features up-to-date analysis of: · Al-Qaeda’s affiliates and the “franchising” of jihadism · “Lone wolf” violence in the United States and Europe · Sri Lanka’s victory over the Tamil Tigers Other features include updated and expanded bibliographies in each chapter, more scholarly citations, and a new conclusion, making Terrorism: A History the go-to book for those wishing to understand the real nature and importance of this ubiquitous phenomenon.

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Book Detail:
Author: Albert Parry
Publisher: New York : Vanguard Press
ISBN:
Size: 38.11 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 1976
Category: Terrorism
Language: en
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Download PDF Terrorism eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "This work, the result of years of painstaking research, presents a comprehensive description and analysis of modern terrorism, plague of today's world. While showing how the nature of terrorism has evolved and changed, it gives a penetrating insight into the violence of man and the forces he will have to deal with if he is to survive. Today's terrorism threatens not only individual societies- it threatens international order and the future of mankind."--Jacket.

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Book Detail:
Author: Ronald Suny
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1788730747
Size: 61.12 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2020-08-25
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Red Flag Wounded eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Tracking the degeneration of the Russian Revolution Red Flag Wounded brings together essays covering the controversies and debates over the fraught history of the Soviet Union from the revolution to its disintegration. Those monumental years were marked not only by violence, mass killing, and the brutal overturning of a peasant society but also by the modernisation and industrialisation of the largest country in the world, the victory over fascism, and the slow recovery of society after the nightmare of Stalinism. Ronald Grigor Suny is one of the most prominent experts on the revolution, the fate of the non-Russian peoples of the Soviet empire, and the twists and turns of Western historiography of the Soviet experience. As a biographer of Stalin and a long-time commentator on Russian and Soviet affairs, he brings novel insights to a history that has been misunderstood and deliberately distorted in the public sphere. For a fresh look at a story that affects our world today, this is the place to begin.

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Book Detail:
Author: Mark Levene
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192509411
Size: 16.50 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2018-01-12
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Devastation eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. From the years leading up to the First World War to the aftermath of the Second, Europe experienced an era of genocide. As well as the Holocaust, this period also witnessed the Armenian genocide in 1915, mass killings in Bolshevik and Stalinist Russia, and a host of further ethnic cleansings in Anatolia, the Balkans, and Eastern Europe. Crisis of Genocide seeks to integrate these genocidal events into a single, coherent history. Over two volumes, Mark Levene demonstrates how the relationship between geography, nation, and power came to play a key role in the emergence of genocide in a collapsed or collapsing European imperial zone - the Rimlands - and how the continuing geopolitical contest for control of these Eastern European or near-European regions destabilised relationships between diverse and multifaceted ethnic communities who traditionally had lived side by side. An emergent pattern of toxicity can also be seen in the struggles for regional dominance as pursued by post-imperial states, nation-states, and would-be states. Volume I: Devastation covers the period from 1912 to 1938. It is divided into two parts, the first associated with the prelude to, actuality of, and aftermath of the Great War and imperial collapse, the second the period of provisional 'New Europe' reformulation as well as post-imperial Stalinist, Nazi - and Kemalist - consolidation up to 1938. Levene also explores the crystallisation of truly toxic anti-Jewish hostilities, the implication being that the immediate origins of the Jewish genocides in the Second World War are to be found in the First.

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Book Detail:
Author: Andrew Kahn
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199663947
Size: 47.56 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2018
Category: Literary Collections
Language: en
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Download PDF A History Of Russian Literature eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Russia possesses one of the richest and most admired literatures of Europe, reaching back to the eleventh century. A History of Russian Literature provides a comprehensive account of Russian writing from its earliest origins in the monastic works of Kiev up to the present day, still rife with the creative experiments of post-Soviet literary life. The volume proceeds chronologically in five parts, extending from Kievan Rus' in the 11th century to the present day.The coverage strikes a balance between extensive overview and in-depth thematic focus. Parts are organized thematically in chapters, which a number of keywords that are important literary concepts that can serve as connecting motifs and 'case studies', in-depth discussions of writers, institutions, and texts that take the reader up close and. Visual material also underscores the interrelation of the word and image at a number of points, particularly significant in the medieval period and twentieth century. The History addresses major continuities and discontinuities in the history of Russian literature across all periods, and in particular bring out trans-historical features that contribute to the notion of a national literature. The volume's time-range has the merit of identifying from the early modern period a vital set of national stereotypes and popular folklore about boundaries, space, Holy Russia, and the charismatic king that offers culturally relevant material to later writers. This volume delivers a fresh view on a series of key questions about Russia's literary history, by providing new mappings of literary history and a narrative that pursues key concepts (rather more than individual authorial careers). This holistic narrative underscores the ways in which context and text are densely woven in Russian literature, and demonstrates that the most exciting way to understand the canon and the development of tradition is through a discussion of the interrelation of major and minor figures, historical events and literary politics, literary theory and literary innovation.

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Book Detail:
Author: Mark S. Hamm
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437929591
Size: 78.83 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2011-01
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Language: en
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Download PDF Crimes Committed By Terrorist Groups eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. Examines terrorists¿ involvement in a variety of crimes ranging from motor vehicle violations, immigration fraud, and mfg. illegal firearms to counterfeiting, armed bank robbery, and smuggling weapons of mass destruction. There are 3 parts: (1) Compares the criminality of internat. jihad groups with domestic right-wing groups. (2) Six case studies of crimes includes trial transcripts, official reports, previous scholarship, and interviews with law enforce. officials and former terrorists are used to explore skills that made crimes possible; or events and lack of skill that the prevented crimes. Includes brief bio. of the terrorists along with descriptions of their org., strategies, and plots. (3) Analysis of the themes in closing arguments of the transcripts in Part 2. Illus.

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