Title
Blood and rage : a cultural history of terrorism / Michael Burleigh.
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
ISBN
9780061173851
0061173851
Publication Details
New York : Harper, c2009.
Language
English
Description
xii, 577 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 24 cm.
Call Number
HV6431 .B867 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
303.62509
Summary
This book is a sweeping and deeply penetrating work of history that explores the nature of terrorism from its origins in the West to today's global threat fueled by fundamentalists. The author, a distinguished historian emphasizes the lethal resentments and the twisted morality that spawn terrorism rather than the ideological or religious justification that routinely accompanies it. He reveals who the terrorist groups are, how they organize and operate, what motivates their violence, and how wider support encourages them. This book takes us from the roots of terrorism in the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Russian Nihilists, and the London-based anarchists of Black International to the various terrorist campaigns that exist today. It also explores the lives of people engaged in careers of political violence and those who are most affected by terrorism.
Note
Originally published: London : HarperPress, c2008.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Green : the Fenian dynamiters
Red : Russian nihilists and revolutionaries
Black : anarchists and terrorism
Death in the sun : terror and decolonisation
Attention-seeking : Black September and international terrorism
Guilty white kids : the Red Brigades and the Red Army faction
Small-nation terror
World rage : Islamist terrorism.
