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Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
xxv, 486 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The IRA has been a much richer, more complexly layered, and more protean organization than is frequently recognized. It is also more open to balanced examination now-at the end of its long war in the north of Ireland-than it was even a few years ago.
Richard English's brilliant book offers a detailed history of the IRA, providing invaluable historical depth to our understanding of the modern-day Provisionals, the more militant wing formed in 1969...
Author
Language
English
Description
Congressman Jamie Raskin tells the story of the forty-five days at the start of 2021 that permanently changed his life - and his family's - as he confronted the painful loss of his son to suicide, lived through the violent insurrection in our nation's Capitol, and led the impeachment effort to hold President Trump accountable for inciting the political violence. A moving story of a father coping with his pain and a revealing examination of holding...
Author
Language
English
Description
Interweaving deep historical analysis with gripping firsthand reporting on both victims and perpetrators of violence, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist charts the return of the American cycle of racial progress and white backlash and how the federal government has failed to intervene.
In 2008, Barack Obama's historic victory was heralded as a turning point for the country. And so it would be--just not in the way that most Americans hoped. The election...
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
382 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Karen Connelly goes to Burma in 1996 to gather information for a series of articles, she discovers a place of unexpected beauty and generosity. She also encounters a country ruled by a brutal military dictatorship that imposes a code of censorship and terror. Carefully seeking out the regime's critics, she witnesses mass demonstrations, attends protests, interviews detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and flees from police. When it gets...
Author
Publisher
AK Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
178 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Gang Politics, Kristian Williams examines our society's understanding of social and political violence, what gets romanticized, misunderstood, or muddled. He explores the complex intersections between "gangs" of all sorts--cops and criminals, Proud Boys and Antifa, Panthers and skinheads--arguing that government and criminality are intimately related, often sharing critical features. As society becomes more polarized and conflict more common,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Rebel historian" Kelly Lytle Hernández reframes our understanding of U.S. history in this groundbreaking narrative of revolution in the borderlands. Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States. Led by a brilliant but ill-tempered radical named Ricardo Flores Magón, the magonistas were a motley band of journalists, miners, migrant workers, and more, who...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
xvii, 716 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Co-Winner of the 2001 Award for Scholarly Distinction, American Historical Association" Arno J. Mayer is Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University. He is best known for his last two books: The Persistence of the Old Regime and Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?: The "Final Solution" in History. He is also the author of Political Origins of the New Diplomacy and Politics and Diplomacy of Peacemaking.
The great romance and fear of bloody...
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
313 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Based on first-hand reporting from Syria and Washington, journalist Reese Erlich unravels the complex dynamics underlying the Syrian civil war. Through vivid, on-the-ground accounts and interviews with both rebel leaders and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Erlich gives the reader a better understanding of this momentous power struggle and why it matters. Through his many contacts inside Syria, the author reveals who is supporting Assad and why;...
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A chilling overview of the current threat from domestic terrorism by a former Department of Homeland Security analyst America is a land in which extremism no longer belongs to the country's shadowy fringes, but comfortably exists in the national mainstream. That is the alarming conclusion by intelligence analyst Daryl Johnson, an expert on domestic extremism with more than twenty-five years of experience tracking radicalized groups for the U.S Government....
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xviii, 410 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This is the first global history of the secret diplomatic and police campaign that was waged against anarchist terrorism from 1878 to the 1920s. Anarchist terrorism was at that time the dominant form of terrorism and for many continued to be synonymous with terrorism as late as the 1930s. Ranging from Europe and the Americas to the Middle East and Asia, Richard Bach Jensen explores how anarchist terrorism emerged as a global phenomenon during the...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 447 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A storm of illiberalism, building in the United States for years, unleashed its destructive force in the Capitol insurrection of January 6, 2021. The attack on American democracy and images of mob violence led many to recoil, thinking "That's not us." But now we must think again, for Steven Hahn shows in his startling new history that illiberalism has deep roots in our past. To those who believe that the ideals announced in the Declaration of Independence...
Publisher
Grey House Publishing
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
4 volumes (xxi, 1110, I-CIV pages) : illustrations (mostly color), maps (mostly color), portraits ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
A four volume set that provides an up-to-date overview of conflicts around the globe.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xiii, 344 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of "Chucky" Taylor, a young American who lost his soul in Liberia, the country where his African father was a ruthless warlord and dictator.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 538 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A harrowing history of the conflicts that swept Asia during the decade following World War II-and determined the fate of the continent. The end of World War II led to the United States' emergence as a global superpower. For war-ravaged Western Europe it marked the beginning of decades of unprecedented cooperation and prosperity that one historian has labeled "the long peace." Yet half a world away, in China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Korea, and Malaya-the...
17) Terrorism
Author
Series
Publisher
Kidhaven Press
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Uses the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, to explore the historical, political, and religious origins of political violence, its effects on individuals, and what governments can do to stop it.
Author
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In Force and Freedom, Kellie Carter Jackson provides the first historical analysis exclusively focused on the tactical use of violence among antebellum black activists. Through rousing public speeches, the bourgeoning black press, and the formation of militia groups, black abolitionist leaders mobilized their communities, compelled national action, and drew international attention. Drawing on the precedent and pathos of the American and Haitian Revolutions,...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language
English
Description
"A pathbreaking account of the continuing ethnic and state violence after the end of WWI-- conflicts that more than anything else set the stage for WWII"--
"An epic, groundbreaking account of the ethnic and state violence that followed the end of World War I-- conflicts that would shape the course of the twentieth century. For the Western allies, November 11, 1918 has always been a solemn date-- the end of fighting that had destroyed a generation,...
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