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Assassination Politics And Miracles
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Author : David Skuy
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2003
Assassination Politics And Miracles written by David Skuy and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
Annotation An in-depth examination of the event that precipitated the complete domination of Restoration politics by the Royalists and ultimately convinced millions of French citizens to support Louis XVIII and the Bourbon monarchy. On 13 February 1820 the Duke of Berry, the only Bourbon prince capable of siring an heir, was assassinated. Seven months later the Duchess of Berry gave birth to a boy, the Duke of Bordeaux, and the Bourbon lineage was saved. The boy was immediately nicknamed "the miracle child." The Duke's assassination and the birth of his son gave rise to the Royalist Reaction of 1820, a ten-month period that forever altered France's political landscape. This remarkable story provides the backdrop for David Skuy's analysis of the Royalist Reaction and its place in the history of the French Restoration. Skuy argues that the Royalist Reaction was the product of two divergent forces: historical echoes of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire and the psychological consequences of the assassination, and the miracle child. Skuy discusses Restoration political theory and the development of modern political parties. He follows the strategems of anti-royalist extremists plotting to overthrow the Bourbon regime, and details the complexities and intrigues that characterized the royal court and parliament. Skuy reveals how the assassination and the birth of the miracle child triggered a popular Royalist Reaction that changed millions of French citizens from passive observers into ardent royalists.
Assassination Politics And Miracles
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Author : David Skuy
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2003-05-26
Assassination Politics And Miracles written by David Skuy and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-05-26 with History categories.
This remarkable story provides the backdrop for David Skuy's analysis of the Royalist Reaction and its place in the history of the French Restoration. Skuy argues that the Royalist Reaction was the product of two divergent forces: historical echoes of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire and the psychological consequences of the assassination and the miracle child. Skuy discusses Restoration political theory and the development of modern political parties. He follows the strategems of anti-royalist extremists plotting to overthrow the Bourbon regime, and details the complexities and intrigues that characterized the royal court and parliament. Skuy reveals how the assassination and the birth of the miracle child triggered a popular Royalist Reaction that changed millions of French citizens from passive observers into ardent royalists.
Assassination
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Author : Linda Laucella
language : en
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
Release Date : 1998
Assassination written by Linda Laucella and has been published by McGraw-Hill/Contemporary this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Social Science categories.
The motivation can be political, philosophical, or religious fanaticism; the results can change history. "Assassination" is an almanac of a phenomenon that has been a part of political culture for thousands of years. Chronologically arranged, "Assassination" examines why this violent aspect of human history has happened, to whom it has happened, and its impact on events of the time. 10 b&w photos.
Assassination
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Author : Xavier Waterkeyn
language : en
Publisher: New Holland Australia(AU)
Release Date : 2007
Assassination written by Xavier Waterkeyn and has been published by New Holland Australia(AU) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Assassination categories.
Most murder happens for private reasons, such as jealousy and greed but, when it's politically motivated, murder takes on the more elegant-sounding label of assassination. Starting with ancient Egypt and Rome then going right up to the present day, Assassination: Political Murder Through the Ages provides the facts and circumstances, the quirky and precise details as well as the power and politics that lie behind both the famous and the less well-known assassinations in recorded history. There are also a number of failed, foiled or simply bungled assassination attempts. Some of the names included are: Akhenaton, Hipparchus, Julius Caesar, Thomas Beckett, Jean-Paul Marat, Franz Ferdinand, Nikolai Ceausescu, Diane Fossey, John F Kennedy, Olof Palme, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Yitzak Rabin, Benigno Aquino, Mahatma Ghandi, Harvey Milk, Abraham Lincoln, Bobby Kennedy. Why did the ancient Romans shed so much of each other's blood? Who killed Olof Palme? Why are American presidents such tempting target, for assassins? The answers to these and many other intriguing questions are all in Assassination: Political Murder Through the Ages. Book jacket.
Miracles Political Authority And Violence In Medieval And Early Modern History
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Author : Matthew Rowley
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-11-11
Miracles Political Authority And Violence In Medieval And Early Modern History written by Matthew Rowley and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-11 with History categories.
This volume examines how historical beliefs about the supernatural were used to justify violence, secure political authority or extend toleration in both the medieval and early modern periods. Contributors explore miracles, political authority and violence in Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, various Protestant groups, Judaism, Islam and the local religious beliefs of Pacific Islanders who interacted with Christians. The chapters are geographically expansive, with contributions ranging from confessional conflict in Poland-Lithuania to the conquest of Oceania. They examine various types of conflict such as confessional struggles, conversion attempts, assassination and war, as well as themes including diplomacy, miraculous iconography, toleration, theology and rhetoric. Together, the chapters explore the appropriation of accounts of miraculous violence that are recorded in sacred texts to reveal what partisans claimed God did in conflict, and how they claimed to know. The volume investigates theories of justified warfare, changing beliefs about the supernatural with the advent of modernity and the perceived relationship between human and divine agency. Miracles, Political Authority and Violence in Medieval and Early Modern History is of interest to scholars and students in several fields including religion and violence, political and military history, and theology and the reception of sacred texts in the medieval and early modern world.
Assassin
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Author : J. Bowyer Bell
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-29
Assassin written by J. Bowyer Bell and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-29 with Political Science categories.
Assassination as a political act has a long history, predating the murder of Julius Caesar and continuing into our own time. The murder of the mighty has long fascinated artists and rebels but only rarely has it been studied in a scholarly manner. In Assassin, J. Bowyer Bell combines existing historical evidence with years of personal interviews with terrorists in Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. The result is an incisive study of that enigmatic figure, the revolutionary killer. As Bell makes clear, the motives of the actors, and effectiveness of assassination, vary widely across time and place. Assassination in many parts of the world has not only been a normal political act, rational, explicable, but also often effective, in some cases taking fewer lives in the transfer of power than an election. Likewise, there have been all kinds of assassins--personal, psychopathic, professional, ranging from lonely failures trying to make their mark to authorized agents of the state. Using the assassination of Henry IV of France as a historical backdrop, Bell writes about contemporary political murder from the perspective of one who has studied the subject of political violence for decades. Bell has met with or known well the perpetrators, conspirators, and intended victims of assassination who have escaped. His interviewees include a radical Irish revolutionary leader, an American Arabist diplomat, a spokesman for the PLO, and the president of a Mozambique liberation movement. The itinerary of his investigative journeys covers most of the flashpoints of contemporary political violence. The people and places studied here at firsthand are engaged in a deadly game. The attrition rate is often high, the power fleeting, and the consequences often unforeseen. If past is prologue, assassination is to be with us for years to come. The volume will be essential reading for those engaged in the prevention of political violence and terror as well as historians and political scientists.
The Politics Of Assassination
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Author : Murray Clark Havens
language : en
Publisher: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall
Release Date : 1970
The Politics Of Assassination written by Murray Clark Havens and has been published by Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with True Crime categories.
Revised edition was published in 1975 under title : Assassination and terrorism.
Revolutionary Contagion And International Politics
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Author : Chad E. Nelson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-08-18
Revolutionary Contagion And International Politics written by Chad E. Nelson and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-18 with Political Science categories.
A unique theory of what happens when leaders fear a revolution abroad will spread to their own country and how that affects international relations. When do leaders fear that a revolution elsewhere will spread to their own polities, and what are the international effects of this fear? In Revolutionary Contagion, Chad E. Nelson develops and tests a theory that explains how states react to ideological-driven revolutions that have occurred in other nations. To do this, he analyzes four key revolutionary movements over two centuries-liberalism, communism, fascism, and Islamism. He further explains that the key to understanding the response to revolutions lies in focusing on the extent to which leaders fear upheaval in their own countries. According to the theory, Nelson argues, fear of contagion is driven more by the characteristics of the host rather than the activities of the infecting agents. In other words, leaders will fear revolutionary contagion when they have significant revolutionary opposition movements that have an ideological affinity with the revolutionary state. A powerful theory of the profound effects revolutions have on international relations, this book shows why one simply cannot make sense of international politics--including patterns of alliances and wars--in certain situations without considering the fear of contagion.
Encyclopedia Of Political Assassinations
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Author : Nigel West
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2017-08-07
Encyclopedia Of Political Assassinations written by Nigel West and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-07 with Political Science categories.
With the recent declassification of secret documents new light has been shed on old mysteries. For example, we now know that what might be termed the "JFK assassination conspiracy industry" was deliberately fueled and manipulated by the KGB so as to distract the CIA and undermine confidence in successive U.S. administrations. Also, new evidence continues to emerge of Vladimir Putin’s commitment to the extra-judicial elimination of "extremists" overseas, as legitimized by the Duma in July 2006. Controversially, the legislation included a definition of “extremists” as "those slandering the individual occupying the post of president of the Russian Federation”. The Encyclopedia of Political Assassinations contains a chronology, an introduction, and appendixes. The encyclopedia section has more than 700 cross-referenced entries on assassinations, intelligence agencies, politics and foreign relations.
Day Of The Assassins
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Author : Michael Burleigh
language : en
Publisher: Picador
Release Date : 2021-05-27
Day Of The Assassins written by Michael Burleigh and has been published by Picador this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-27 with Assassination categories.
A forensic account of political assassinations from the late nineteenth century to the present day.