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Blood and Rage A Cultural History of Terrorism

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ISBN-10: 0061173851

ISBN-13: 9780061173851

Edition: 2009

Authors: Michael Burleigh

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Blood and Rage 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. Distinguished historian Michael Burleigh ("There are few better writers at work today" -The Sunday Times) 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.Burleigh takes us from the roots of terrorism in the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Russian…    
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Book details

List price: $29.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 3/3/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 592
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.73" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English

Michael Burleigh, as of the fall of 2000, is a professor of history at Washington and Lee University. He is the author of six previous books on Germany, including Death and Deliverance and Ethics and Extermination.

Preface
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
Afterthoughts
Acknowledgements
Notes
Picture Credits
Select Bibliography
Index