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Terrorism : a documentary and reference guide / Vincent Burns and Kate Dempsey Peterson ; foreword by James K. Kallstrom.
- Title
- Terrorism : a documentary and reference guide / Vincent Burns and Kate Dempsey Peterson ; foreword by James K. Kallstrom.
- Author
- Burns, Vincent
- Publication
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2005.
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- Description
- xxxvii, 293 p. : ill.; 28 cm.
- Summary
- Presents an overview of modern terrorism, covering the American view of terrorism in the 1970s and 1980s, the early warnings about Al Qaeda, and the dramatic changes within American society and government brought about by the 9/11 attacks.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Sources (form)
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Definitions of terrorism : past and present -- American versus American -- Middle Eastern terrorism and the United States, 1970s-1980s -- Radical Islam -- Al Queda : the gathering storm -- September 11 : the plot unfolds -- September 11 postmortem I : the government admits its intelligence failures -- September 11 postmortem II : a changed society -- Conclusion : the war on terrorism goes on (and on).
- ISBN
- 0313332134 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2005003390
- OCLC
- 57670205
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library