Book Description
A transnational history of the first urban bombing campaign, when Irish nationalists targeted symbolic British public buildings in the 1880s.
Author : Niall Whelehan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 10,79 MB
Release : 2012-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1107023327
A transnational history of the first urban bombing campaign, when Irish nationalists targeted symbolic British public buildings in the 1880s.
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
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Page : 588 pages
File Size : 26,84 MB
Release : 1908
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Author : James Revill
Publisher : Springer
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 13,85 MB
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 331933834X
This book begins with an account of the evolution of improvised explosive devices using a number of micro case studies to explore how and why actors have initiated IED campaigns; how new and old technologies and expertise have been exploited and how ethical barriers to IED development and deployment have been dealt with. It proceeds to bring the evidence from the case studies together to identify themes and trends in IED development, before looking at what can realistically be done to mitigate the threat of IEDs in the new wars of the twenty first century. The book suggests that the advance and availability of a combination of technological factors, in conjunction with changes in the nature of contemporary conflicts, have led to the emergence of IEDs as the paradigmatic weapons of new wars. However their prevalence in contemporary and future conflicts is not inevitable, but rather depends on the willingness of multiple sets of actors at different levels to build a web of preventative measures to mitigate – if not eradicate – IED development and deployment.
Author : Niall Whelehan
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Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,71 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781139887656
In the 1880s a New York-based faction of militant Irish nationalists conducted the first urban bombing campaign in history, targeting symbolic public buildings in Britain with homemade bombs. This book investigates the people and ideas behind this spectacular new departure in revolutionary violence. Employing a transnational approach, the book reveals connections and parallels between the 'dynamiters' and other revolutionary groups active at the time and demonstrates how they interacted with currents in revolution, war and politics across Europe, the United States and the British Empire. Reconstructing the life stories of individual dynamiters and their conceptual and ethical views on violence, it offers an innovative picture of the dynamics of revolutionary organizations as well as the political, social and cultural factors which move people to support or condemn acts of political violence.
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Page : 420 pages
File Size : 10,26 MB
Release : 1896
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Page : 1048 pages
File Size : 36,28 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Commerce
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Page : 856 pages
File Size : 29,3 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Sports
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Page : 788 pages
File Size : 40,15 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Sports
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Page : 852 pages
File Size : 30,68 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Sports
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Page : 800 pages
File Size : 35,81 MB
Release : 1912
Category : American literature
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