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Death to Order : A Modern History of Assassination.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ball, Simon.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (441 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- A deeply researched history of assassination in the modern world, from Franz Ferdinand to Osama bin Laden Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Leon Trotsky, Reinhard Heydrich, Mahatma Gandhi, John F.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Halftitle page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 MURDER AS AN INSTRUMENT OF POLICY: The Sarajevo Assassination, 1914-1930
- 2 THE MONOPOLY OF LEGITIMATE VIOLENCE: European Assassinations, 1917-1923
- 3 THE RULES OF THE GAME: Assassination and the Greatest Empire, 1909-1940
- 4 DEATH TO THE PRESIDENTS: Assassination and the USA's Near Abroad, 1901-1950
- 5 GOVERNMENT BY ASSASSINATION: China and Japan, 1928-1941
- 6 SABOTAGE APPLIED TO INDIVIDUALS: Totalitarians and Democrats, 1923-1945
- 7 LAST RITES: Assassination and the Fall of Empires, 1944-1973
- 8 DANGEROUS IN CONCEPTION AND EXECUTION: The US Experiment with Assassination, 1952-1976
- PLATES
- 9 SPLINTER GROUPS: Denial, 1971-1979
- 10 LONDON KILLING: Acceptance, 1980-1990
- 11 VERY VERY IMPORTANT PEOPLE: Security, 1991-2001
- 12 WHO SHOULD PULL THE TRIGGER?: Assassination in the Twenty-First Century
- CONCLUSION
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-300-28306-7
- 9780300283068
- OCLC:
- 1561174038
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