Research Catalog

Title

Coup d'état : a practical handbook / Edward N. Luttwak.

Author

Luttwak, Edward

Publication

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016.

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Details

Description

xxxvi, 264 pages; 21 cm

Summary

"A book that aids understanding how governments and states really work. That aim is pursued by presenting in full detail how a coup d'état would be planned and executed, from the first approach to fellow-conspirators, to the post-coup announcements promising a new era of progress and stability. Coup d' État has continued to find readers around the world--it has appeared in sixteen foreign languages--but with the passage of time, this fully revised new edition became necessary. Even readers who do not plan to use it as a practical handbook will find it interesting, as well as instructive."--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• Coups d'état > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Coups d'état

Genre/Form

Handbooks and manuals

Note

• "First published in Great Britain by Allen Lane The Penguin Press 1968"--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

What is the coup d'état? -- When is a coup d'état possible? -- The strategy of the coup d'état -- The planning of the coup d'état -- The execution of the coup d'état.

ISBN

• 9780674737266
• 0674737261

LCCN

^^2015033858

OCLC

• 921821706
• SCSB-10714895

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library