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Making sense of suicide missions
- Title
- Making sense of suicide missions / edited by Diego Gambetta.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 05-11411 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Gambetta, Diego, 1952-
- Description
- x, 378 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "Suicide attacks are a defining act of political violence and an extraordinary social phenomenon. This book investigates the organizers of suicide missions and the perpetrators alike"--Provided by publisher.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-356) and index.
- Contents
- Kamikaze, 1943-5 / Peter Hill -- Tamil tigers, 1987-2002 / Stephen Hopgood -- Palestinians, 1981-2003 / Luca Ricolfi -- Al-Qaeda, September 11, 2001 / Stephen Holmes -- Dying without killing : self-immolations, 1963-2002 / Michael Biggs -- Killing without dying : the absence of suicide missions / Stathis Kalyvas, Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca -- Motivations and beliefs in suicide missions / Jon Elster -- Can we make sense of suicide missions? / Diego Gambetta.
- Call Number
- JFE 05-11411
- ISBN
- 0199276994 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004025887
- OCLC
- 56903860
- Title
- Making sense of suicide missions / edited by Diego Gambetta.
- Imprint
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-356) and index.
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- Added Author
- Gambetta, Diego, 1952-
- Research Call Number
- JFE 05-11411