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Book Entangled in Terror

Download or read book Entangled in Terror written by Anna Geifman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1909, after 15 years in the Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR) rising to the leader of its terrorist arm, Azef was exposed as a traitor. This text explores his role in the PSR, his contacts with the secret police, the consequences of the Azef affair and Azef's personal motives for his actions.

Book Entangled in Fear

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  • Author : Marcin Zaremba
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2022-09-06
  • ISBN : 0253063116
  • Pages : 802 pages

Download or read book Entangled in Fear written by Marcin Zaremba and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fear is always experienced individually, and few experiences are as personal. There can be no collective fear without individual fear preceding it. A society's fear is born out of the convergence of individual experiences, when dozens, hundreds, thousands, and millions of people are afraid of the same thing at the same time." This is a story about postwar Polish society and its emotions. This is a story of heroes: soldiers, deserters, orphans, and beggars. Now available in English for the first time, Entangled in Fear reveals the broken society where bandits, hunger, bombs, Russia, and countless other threats had an immense influence on Poles as they struggled through the wreckage caused by World War II. Journalist and historian Marcin Zaremba uses sociology, psychology, and history to explore collective fear in official documents and the personal papers of those who were left to survive in postwar Poland. In doing so, he reveals how fear of famine and epidemics, sexual violence and looting, joblessness and invasion led directly to collective action on the part of Poles. A groundbreaking work, Entangled in Fear challenges the reader to consider how emotions have shaped human history and how a more serious engagement with emotions is key to a fuller understanding of the past.

Book Entangled in Fear

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  • Author : Marcin Zaremba
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2022-11
  • ISBN : 9780253063090
  • Pages : 392 pages

Download or read book Entangled in Fear written by Marcin Zaremba and published by . This book was released on 2022-11 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -Clearly written, compelling study of the psychological impact of sustained warfare on historical events. -Translated from German, first English edition.

Book Entangled in Terror

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  • Author : Fred Titchener
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2024-01-20
  • ISBN : 9781914913815
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Entangled in Terror written by Fred Titchener and published by . This book was released on 2024-01-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dirty Entanglements

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  • Author : Louise I. Shelley
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2014-07-28
  • ISBN : 1107015642
  • Pages : 385 pages

Download or read book Dirty Entanglements written by Louise I. Shelley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-28 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using lively case studies, this book analyzes the transformation of crime and terrorism and the business logic of terrorism.

Book Thou Shalt Kill

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  • Author : Anna Geifman
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 1995-12-31
  • ISBN : 9780691025490
  • Pages : 396 pages

Download or read book Thou Shalt Kill written by Anna Geifman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1995-12-31 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the explosion of terrorist activity that took place throughout the Russian Empire at the turn of the 20th century. Focusing on the years of the Russian Revolution, it analyzes the sudden escalation of political violence that occurred after two relatively tranquil decades.

Book Terror and Violence

Download or read book Terror and Violence written by Andrew Strathern and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2006 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Book Terror and Performance

Download or read book Terror and Performance written by Rustom Bharucha and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-16 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘This work goes where other books fear to tread. It reaches the parts other scholars might imagine in their dreams but would neither have the international reach nor the critical acumen and forensic flourish to deliver.’ Alan Read, King's College London ‘This book is not only timely. It is overdue – and it is a masterpiece unrivalled by any book I know of.’ Erika Fischer-Lichte, Freie Universität Berlin ‘The first and only book that focuses on the intersections of performance, terror and terrorism as played out beyond a Euro-American context post-9/11. It is an important work, both substantively and methodologically.’ Jenny Hughes, University of Manchester ‘A profound and tightly bound sequence of reflections ... a rigorously provocative book.’ Stephen Barber, Kingston University London In this exceptional investigation Rustom Bharucha considers the realities of Islamophobia, the legacies of Truth and Reconciliation, the deadly certitudes of State-controlled security systems and the legitimacy of counter-terror terrorism, drawing on a vast spectrum of human cruelties across the global South. The outcome is a brilliantly argued case for seeing terror as a volatile and mutant phenomenon that is deeply lived, experienced, and performed within the cultures of everyday life.

Book Entanglements  Or Transmedial Thinking about Capture

Download or read book Entanglements Or Transmedial Thinking about Capture written by Rey Chow and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-11 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This follow-up volume to our book The Age of the World Target collects interconnected entangled essays of literary and cultural theorist Rey Chow. The essays take up ideas of violence, capture, identification, temporality, sacrifice, and victimhood, engaging with theorists from Derrida and Deleuze to Agamben and Rancière.

Book Sacred Terror

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  • Author : Douglas E. Cowan
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016-04
  • ISBN : 9781481304900
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Sacred Terror written by Douglas E. Cowan and published by . This book was released on 2016-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred Terror examines the religious elements lurking in horror films. It answers a simple but profound question: When there are so many other scary things around, why is religion so often used to tell a scary story? In this lucid, provocative book, Douglas Cowan argues that horror films are opportune vehicles for externalizing the fears that lie inside our religious selves: of evil; of the flesh; of sacred places; of a change in the sacred order; of the supernatural gone out of control; of death, dying badly, or not remaining dead; of fanaticism; and of the power--and the powerlessness--of religion.

Book Fighting Terror after Napoleon

Download or read book Fighting Terror after Napoleon written by Beatrice de Graaf and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Europe was forged out of the ashes of the Napoleonic wars by means of a collective fight against revolutionary terror. The Allied Council created a culture of in- and exclusion, of people that were persecuted and those who were protected, using secret police, black lists, border controls and fortifications, and financed by European capital holders.

Book The Degaev Affair

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  • Author : Richard Pipes
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2003-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300107722
  • Pages : 190 pages

Download or read book The Degaev Affair written by Richard Pipes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The well-known historian Pipes uses previously unexplored Russian archives to draw a brilliant psychological, political, and sociological portrait of Degaev--a committed terrorist in Russia and an admired professor in America. 18 illustrations.

Book Terrorism and Transatlantic Relations

Download or read book Terrorism and Transatlantic Relations written by Klaus Larres and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-27 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the development of transatlantic policy on international terrorism and assesses the situation today. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to terrorism and transatlantic relations, bringing together experts from contemporary history, political science, military strategy, psychology, law and security. Looking back to the roots of modern terrorism, from the late 70s to 9/11 and beyond, the volume evaluates how attitudes and approaches have changed over this period. It analyses potential solutions for finding a shared philosophy to counter the threat of transnational terrorism in the US and Europe, against a rapidly changing political landscape. Chapters cover a range of topics, including the psychology of terrorism, online propaganda, domestic terrorism, terrorism and finance and cyber security.

Book A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb

Download or read book A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb written by Amitava Kumar and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part reportage and part protest, A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb is an inquiry into the cultural logic and global repercussions of the war on terror. At its center are two men convicted in U.S. courts on terrorism-related charges: Hemant Lakhani, a seventy-year-old tried for attempting to sell a fake missile to an FBI informant, and Shahawar Matin Siraj, baited by the New York Police Department into a conspiracy to bomb a subway. Lakhani and Siraj were caught through questionable sting operations involving paid informants; both men received lengthy jail sentences. Their convictions were celebrated as major victories in the war on terror. In Amitava Kumar’s riveting account of their cases, Lakhani and Siraj emerge as epic bunglers, and the U.S. government as the creator of terror suspects to prosecute. Kumar analyzed the trial transcripts and media coverage, and he interviewed Lakhani, Siraj, their families, and their lawyers. Juxtaposing such stories of entrapment in the United States with narratives from India, another site of multiple terror attacks and state crackdowns, Kumar explores the harrowing experiences of ordinary people entangled in the war on terror. He also considers the fierce critiques of post-9/11 surveillance and security regimes by soldiers and torture victims, as well as artists and writers, including Coco Fusco, Paul Shambroom, and Arundhati Roy.

Book Terrorism

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  • Author : Randall D. Law
  • Publisher : Polity
  • Release : 2009-08-10
  • ISBN : 0745640389
  • Pages : 385 pages

Download or read book Terrorism written by Randall D. Law and published by Polity. This book was released on 2009-08-10 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book leads the reader through the shifting understandings and definitions of terrorism through the ages, providing an understanding of the uses of and responses to terrorism. Extentisvely covers jihadism, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, Northern Ireland and the Ku Klux Klan, plus many other movements.

Book Beyond Terror and Martyrdom

Download or read book Beyond Terror and Martyrdom written by Gilles Kepel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 2001, two dominant worldviews have clashed in the global arena: a neoconservative nightmare of an insidious Islamic terrorist threat to civilized life, and a jihadist myth of martyrdom through the slaughter of infidels. Across the airwaves and on the ground, an ill-defined and uncontrollable war has raged between these two opposing scenarios. Deadly images and threats—from the televised beheading of Western hostages to graphic pictures of torture at Abu Ghraib, from the destruction wrought by suicide bombers in London and Madrid to civilian deaths at the hands of American occupation forces in Iraq—have polarized populations on both sides of this divide. Yet, as the noted Middle East scholar and commentator Gilles Kepel demonstrates, President Bush’s War on Terror masks a complex political agenda in the Middle East—enforcing democracy, accessing Iraqi oil, securing Israel, and seeking regime change in Iran. Osama bin Laden’s call for martyrs to rise up against the apostate and hasten the dawn of a universal Islamic state papers over a fractured, fragmented Islamic world that is waging war against itself. Beyond Terror and Martyrdom sounds the alarm to the West and to Islam that both of these exhausted narratives are bankrupt—neither productive of democratic change in the Middle East nor of unity in Islam. Kepel urges us to escape the ideological quagmire of terrorism and martyrdom and explore the terms of a new and constructive dialogue between Islam and the West, one for which Europe, with its expanding and restless Muslim populations, may be the proving ground.

Book Entangled with the Alpha King

Download or read book Entangled with the Alpha King written by Naely and published by StarNovel (HK) Co., Limited. This book was released on 2024-03-29 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the mysterious death of her father, one of the Alpha kings, Rarity was enslaved by her older brothers and treated like a worthless servant. But on her 18th birthday, Rarity found her mate - the King of all Alphas, the most powerful being in existence. However, a surprising revelation staggers the development of Rarity and the king's union - her brother, Drake, is in love with Rarity.