Infernal Machine A History of Terrorism

Name: Infernal Machine A History of Terrorism
Price: 6.44 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9781595584083

ISBN-10: 1595584080

ISBN-13: 9781595584083

Edition: 2007

Authors: Matthew Carr

List price: $18.95

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

4 new & used from $6.44

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

A highly accessible account of the history of terrorism that places 9/11 and al-Qaeda in historical context. Today, political violence has become the scourge of our world and terrorism is routinely described as a uniquely modern evil. Yet however unprecedented in scope the new terrorist organizations might appear, Matthew Carr argues in this definitive history of terrorism that they are merely offshoots of a spectacular bombing in 1881: the assassination of Tsar Nicholas II by terrorists...or were they freedom fighters? Thus begins a narrative of extraordinary sweep thatPublishers Weeklycalled "engrossing, unsettling" and the Boston Globe praised as "brave and wise" and "a book for the…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: New Press, The
Publication date: 10/5/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.95" wide x 9.00" long x 1.17" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English



Prologue: The Bomb in the Baby Carriage



Beginnings



The Hero Takes the Stage



Anarchists and Dynamitards



Terror and Resistance



Freedom Fighters



Savages



The Romance of the Urban Guerrilla



The Revolutionary Festival



Patriots



The Terrorist Decades



The Dawn of International Terrorism



The First War on Terror



The Armies of God



Waiting for Catastrophe



A Raid on the Path: 9/11 and the War on Terror


Epilogue: In a Time of Terror


Notes


Selected bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index