Offers more than three hundred alphabetically arranged entries covering the people, organizations, events, and places associated with international terrorism and terrorist activities.
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke, assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated in July 1914 by a Serbian nationalist during a visit to Sarajevo, the capital of the Austrian province of Bosnia-Herzogovina.
After taking key buildings in the capital Dublin, they declared an Irish Republic, with Commandant Padraig Pearse as president. The British sent in troops, fought pitched battles all over the city center, and sent gunboats up the River ...
Che's Afterlife: The Legacy of an Image. New York: Vintage Books, 2009. Casey, Michael. “In Argentina, Che Guevara Finally Gets More Than a Lousy T-shirt: Rebel's Birthplace Unveils a Statue of Him as It Reconsiders His Complex Legacy.
Encyclopedia of Terrorism and Political Violence
This three-volume reference on terrorism in the 20th century places this growing phenomenon in the context of modern history.
Thomas George Weiss David P. Forsythe, and Roger A. Coate, The United Nations and Changing World Politics. 3rd ed. Boulder, CO: Westview, 2001. Paul Wilkinson, Political Terrorism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1974.
A compendium of articles which deal with aspects of terrorism, including its history, the September 11, 2001 attacks, balancing civil rights and national security, and terrorist methods and weapons.
Morgan, Matthew J. The American Military After 9/11: Society, State, and Empire. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, ... Morris, Benny. The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947–1949. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. ———.
This book provides an understanding on how they operate, their ideology, their motivation, and what makes one group tick and another tock.
This book provides comprehensive, illuminating, and sometimes disturbing insights into the individuals, groups, and events that have illustrated "extremist" behavior in post-World War II America.