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An anatomy of terror : a history of terrorism / Andrew Sinclair.

By: Sinclair, Andrew, 1935-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Macmillan, 2003Description: xvi, 400 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0333989775.Subject(s): Terrorism -- HistoryOnline resources: Contributor biographical information | Publisher description | Table of contents only
Contents:
Ancient terrors -- The texts of holy terror -- The horror of the Crusades -- The old man of the mountains -- The Anabaptists and millennial terror -- Sacred terror and the French religious wars -- Beast and pest : the origins of bioterror -- The outlaw and the guerrilla -- The illuminati and the French Revolution -- The terror -- Nationalist secret societies -- The early art and literature of terror -- Black terror -- Terror and the warrior -- Thuggee -- The secret societies of China -- The anarchists -- The anarchy of the west -- The Ku Klux Klan -- The Mafia -- The Irish Rebellion -- State terror and the Bolsheviks -- The revolt of labour -- The psychology of world war -- The road to Barcelona -- The failed American revolution -- The shame of Japan -- Fear, strange mercy and annihilation -- The final solution -- African secret societies -- The Gulag lies -- The forced refugees -- The problem of Palestine -- The killing fields of Asia -- Guevara : swimming in a dry sea -- The broadcast of horror -- The unused deterrence -- Ethnic terror -- Return to holy war -- Revenge of Islam -- Countdown to Kabul -- The future of terror.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-385) and index.

Ancient terrors -- The texts of holy terror -- The horror of the Crusades -- The old man of the mountains -- The Anabaptists and millennial terror -- Sacred terror and the French religious wars -- Beast and pest : the origins of bioterror -- The outlaw and the guerrilla -- The illuminati and the French Revolution -- The terror -- Nationalist secret societies -- The early art and literature of terror -- Black terror -- Terror and the warrior -- Thuggee -- The secret societies of China -- The anarchists -- The anarchy of the west -- The Ku Klux Klan -- The Mafia -- The Irish Rebellion -- State terror and the Bolsheviks -- The revolt of labour -- The psychology of world war -- The road to Barcelona -- The failed American revolution -- The shame of Japan -- Fear, strange mercy and annihilation -- The final solution -- African secret societies -- The Gulag lies -- The forced refugees -- The problem of Palestine -- The killing fields of Asia -- Guevara : swimming in a dry sea -- The broadcast of horror -- The unused deterrence -- Ethnic terror -- Return to holy war -- Revenge of Islam -- Countdown to Kabul -- The future of terror.

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