{"product_id":"political-murder-from-tyrannicide-to-terrorism-paper-9780674686366","title":"Political Murder  From Tyrannicide to Terrorism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFord’s exploration of calculated, personalized assassination draws on history, literature, law, philosophy, sociology, and religion. Addressing the vast array of cases and combing thousands of years of history, he asks most of all whether assassination works.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction    PART ONE: THE LESSONS OF ANTIQUITY    1. Jehovah's Children and His Enemies   The Bible as Source   In the Days of the Judges   The Life and Times of Joab   Division and Fall of the Monarchy   Governance under the Lord    2. The Greeks   Darkness and Light in Hellas   The Strange Case of Athens   Colonial Tyrants: Phalaris of Acragas   Dionysius and Dion of Syracuse   Tyrannies North and East   The Macedonia Adventure   The Birth of Tyrannicide Theory    3. Rome   A Republic of Laws   The Gracchi   Pompey, Caesar, Cicero   The Empire as Epilogue   What the Romans Showed    4. Other Peoples, Other Lands   Reports from the Neighbors   Rival Powers   Greater Asia: The Sins of Devadatta   Continents Known and Unknown    5. Zealots, Barbarians, and Assassins   A Time of Transition   Palestine and the Roman Imperium   German Invaders and Their Ways   Islam: Victories and Divisions   Ismailis and the Hashishiyyin    PART TWO: THE EUROPEAN CENTURIES    6. The High Middle Ages   Causes and Limits of Change    Kings, Lords, and Churchmen   Murder at Canterbury   Some Early Christian Views   Two Schoolmen on Tyrannicide    7. A New Age of Princes   English Dynasts   Fifteenth-Century France   Renaissance Italy   From Polemics to Analysis: Guicciardini   Machiavelli    8. Religious Warfare and Reason of State   A Century of Bloodshed   The Monarchomachs   Coligny and William the Silent   The Queen in Danger?   Henry of Navarre    Wallenstein   Trial and Punishment    9. The Early Modern Interlude   The Dog That Did Not Bark in the Night   Signs of Revulsion    Some Likely Victims Spared   Remnants of Violence   The Eighteenth Century   Revolution in France   The End of the Remission     10. The Nineteenth Century   An Old, but Widening Stage   The Kotzebue Killing   Orsini in Paris, 1858   The Tsar and \"The People's Will\"   Phoenix Park     PART THREE: THE MODERN WORLD    11. Civilization in the Balance   Before 1914   The First World War   Russian Shambles   The \"Terrible Twenties\": Two Ends of Europe   Weimar Germany   The 1930s: Terror and the State   The Thirties: Russia and Germany     12. World War II and After   Some Noteworthy Victims   Heydrich, Darlan, and the Resistance   \"The Fuhrer Must Go!\"   Settling Accounts   Different Battles on Changing Lines    13. Recent Times   Mass and Location   Independence and Nationhood   The New Nihilists   Historic Targets: Schleyer, Moro, and the Pope   Post-Colonial Crises   Africa Enters the Arena   The Middle East    14. The Americas: Latin, British, and French   Where Does the \"New World\" Fit?   \"English Islands\"   Canada--and Quebec     15. The United States   \"Conceived and Born in Violence\"?   The Watershed of the Civil War   Madmen or Zealots?   Centers of Controversy: Weiss, Oswald, and Ray   Official Connections    Conclusion: Looking Backward and Forward    Notes   Index","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359094473047,"sku":"9780674686366","price":39.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674686366.jpg?v=1754123562","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/political-murder-from-tyrannicide-to-terrorism-paper-9780674686366","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}