The business of martyrdom : a history of suicide bombing / Jeffrey William Lewis
2012, First Edition. Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. Item #273778
ISBN: 1612510515
Physical description; xv, 346 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Contents; Martyrdom as innovation: the invention of suicide bombing in Imperial Russia -- The weapon of martyrdom: Lebanon, 1981-1985 -- Martyrdom and control: the reinvention of suicide bombing by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam -- Trial runs: the provisional IRA and the Workers' Party of Kurdistan -- Managing martyrdom, part I: Palestinian suicide bombing in the 1990s -- Managing martyrdom, part II: Palestinian suicide bombing in the second Intifada and after, 2000-2010 -- Globalized martyrdom: the Jihadi movement and suicide bombing after 9/11 -- The business of martyrdom. Subjects; Suicide bombers — History. Terrorism — History.
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