Blood and rage a cultural history of terrorism

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 terro...

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Main Author: Burleigh, Michael 1955- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London Harper Perennial 2009
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Table of Contents:
  • 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 Red Army Faction
  • Small-nation terror
  • World rage: Islamists terrorism.