Author: A. BOUVEIRONPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
An Historical and Biographical Sketch of Fieschi
Author: A. BouveironPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Machine guns
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
An Historical and Biographical Sketch of Fieschi, with Anecdotes Relating to His Life, Preceded by a Narrative of the Circumstances Attending the Events of the 28th July, 1835, Etc
Author: A. BOUVEIRONFierce History
Author: Colin MurphyPublisher: The O'Brien Press Ltd
ISBN: 1788490681
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Bestselling author, Colin Murphy, explores the historical figures and events that have existed for centuries in the fringes and brings them out into the open for the reader. Full of historical stories which will intrigue you, captivate you, revolt you and even make you laugh! Colin Murphy welcomes you into the fringes of history where shocking stories and compelling facts await you... Fierce History is a collection of bizarre, grotesque and unexpected episodes from history from all over the world, and from ancient to more modern including: Siblings of famous people - Al Capone's brother who hunted down illegal distillers - Irishman Frank Shackleton, brother of legendary Antarctic explorer Ernest, who was pretty much rubbish at everything, and may have stolen the Irish Crown Jewels - Napoleon's sex-maniac sister Weird historical incidents - Flaming camels of war, - Living turkey parachutes; - Crazy assassination attempts Bizarre medical practices: - Dr Evan O'Neill Kane, who in 1921 performed an appendectomy on himself. - 'Radioactive water' to cure arthritis, gout, neuralgias, poor circulation and a variety of other illnesses – eh, no, it just kills you. Remarkable children: - William Rowan Hamilton by the age of twelve could speak fourteen languages, and went on to discover the quaternion, essential to the development of modern theories of electromagnetism and quantum mechanics, scratching his new mathematical formula on to the side of Broom Bridge in north Dublin
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Terrorism
Author: Carola DietzePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019985856X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 777
Book Description
"The Oxford Handbook of the History of Terrorism presents a re-evaluation of the major narratives in the history of terrorism, exploring the emergence and the use of terrorism in world history from antiquity up to the twenty-first century. The volume presents terrorism as a historically specific form of political violence that was generated by modern Western culture and then transported around the globe, where it interacted with and was transformed in accordance with local conditions. It offers cogent arguments and well-documented case studies that support a reading of terrorism as a modern phenomenon, as well as sustained analyses of the challenges involved in the application of the theories and practices of modernity and terrorism to non-Western parts of the world, both for historical actors and academic commentators. The volume presents an overview of terrorism's antecedents in the pre-modern world, analyzes the emergence of terrorism in the West, and presents a series of case studies from non-Western parts of the world that together constitute terrorism's global reception history. Essays cover a broad range of topics from tyrannicide in ancient Greek political culture, the radical resistance movement against Roman rule in Judea, the invention of terrorism in Europe, Russia, and the United States, anarchist networks in France, Argentina, and China, imperial terror in Colonial Kenya, anti-colonial violence in India, Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, and the German Autumn, to right-wing, religious and eco-terrorism, as well as terrorism's entanglements with science, technology, media, literature and art. Keywords: terrorism studies, terrorism, history of terrorism, history of violence, radicalism, global history, transnational history, international history, modernity, modernization, modernism"--
Catalogue of Books Bought from August 20th, 1843 to August 20th, 1844 for the University Library, Out of the Compensation Fund Allowed by Government on Abolition of Privilege Under the Copyright Act
Author: University of Glasgow. LibraryPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The Gun
Author: C. J. ChiversPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743271734
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The author, a New York Times reporter, traces the invention and mass distribution of the AK-47 assault rifle, and its effects on war. He traces the invention of the assault rifle, following the miniaturization of rapid-fire arms from the American Civil War, through World War I and Vietnam, to present-day Afghanistan, where Kalashnikovs and their knockoffs number as many as 100 million, one for every seventy persons on earth. It is the weapon of state repression, as well as revolution, civil war, genocide, drug wars, and religious wars; and it is the arms of terrorists, guerrillas, boy soldiers, and thugs. From its inception to its use by more than fifty national armies around the world, to its role in modern-day Afghanistan, he discusses how the deadly weapon has helped alter world history.
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: Catalogus Librorum Impressorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae in Academia Oxoniensi B. Bandinel
Author: Biographical and Descriptive Sketches of the Distinguished Characters which Compose the Unrivalled Exhibition and Historical Gallery of Madame Tussaud and Sons
Author: Madame Tussaud and Sons (London).Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher: William Clowes & Sons, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description