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Against The Tyrant
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Author : Oszkár Jászi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1957
Against The Tyrant written by Oszkár Jászi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1957 with Civil rights categories.
Against The Tyrant
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Author : Oszkár Jászi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1957
Against The Tyrant written by Oszkár Jászi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1957 with categories.
The Tyrannicide Brief
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Author : Geoffrey Robertson
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2008-12-10
The Tyrannicide Brief written by Geoffrey Robertson and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Charles I waged civil wars that cost one in ten Englishmen their lives. But in 1649 Parliament was hard put to find a lawyer with the skill and daring to prosecute a king who claimed to be above the law. In the end, they chose the radical lawyer John Cooke, whose Puritan conscience, political vision, and love of civil liberties gave him the courage to bring the king to trial. As a result, Charles I was beheaded, but eleven years later Cooke himself was arrested, tried, and executed at the hands of Charles II. Geoffrey Robertson, a renowned human rights lawyer, provides a vivid new reading of the tumultuous Civil War years, exposing long-hidden truths: that the king was guilty, that his execution was necessary to establish the sovereignty of Parliament, that the regicide trials were rigged and their victims should be seen as national heroes. Cooke’s trial of Charles I, the first trial of a head of state for waging war on his own people, became a forerunner of the trials of Augusto Pinochet, Slobodan Milosevic, and Saddam Hussein. The Tyrannicide Brief is a superb work of history that casts a revelatory light on some of the most important issues of our time.
Terror
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Author : Brett Bowden
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
Release Date : 2008
Terror written by Brett Bowden and has been published by Univ. of Queensland Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Political Science categories.
With a foreword by Geoffrey Robertson, QC. The issues of terror and terrorism confront us every day- every time we board a flight, pick up a newspaper or watch television. Concerns about terrorism now dictate domestic and foreign policies around the world. In a very real sense, one way or another we find ourselves in the grip of terror. But what is terror? How is it described, measured and experienced? Is the current terrorist threat unprecedented? The answers to many of these questions, and the lessons therein, are to be found in history; and nowhere more so than in Europe. In fact, Europe has been home to some of the most terrifying and horrific events in recorded human history. This collection takes a broad-ranging yet detailed look at the landmark events and epochs of terror across Europe, from the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 to the terrorist bombings on the London Underground in July 2005. Drawing on leading authorities from across the globe, this volume explores the historical mutation of political violence and concepts of terror. Terror will be of interest to scholars of history, international relations and political science; to policy makers; and to the educated layperson.
Political Murder
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Author : Franklin L. Ford
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1987
Political Murder written by Franklin L. Ford and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with History categories.
Ford'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.
Death To Tyrants
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Author : David Teegarden
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2013-11-24
Death To Tyrants written by David Teegarden and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-24 with History categories.
Death to Tyrants! is the first comprehensive study of ancient Greek tyrant-killing legislation--laws that explicitly gave individuals incentives to "kill a tyrant." David Teegarden demonstrates that the ancient Greeks promulgated these laws to harness the dynamics of mass uprisings and preserve popular democratic rule in the face of anti-democratic threats. He presents detailed historical and sociopolitical analyses of each law and considers a variety of issues: What is the nature of an anti-democratic threat? How would various provisions of the laws help pro-democrats counter those threats? And did the laws work? Teegarden argues that tyrant-killing legislation facilitated pro-democracy mobilization both by encouraging brave individuals to strike the first blow against a nondemocratic regime and by convincing others that it was safe to follow the tyrant killer's lead. Such legislation thus deterred anti-democrats from staging a coup by ensuring that they would be overwhelmed by their numerically superior opponents. Drawing on modern social science models, Teegarden looks at how the institution of public law affects the behavior of individuals and groups, thereby exploring the foundation of democracy's persistence in the ancient Greek world. He also provides the first English translation of the tyrant-killing laws from Eretria and Ilion. By analyzing crucial ancient Greek tyrant-killing legislation, Death to Tyrants! explains how certain laws enabled citizens to draw on collective strength in order to defend and preserve their democracy in the face of motivated opposition.
Tyrannicide
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Author : Emily Blanck
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2014
Tyrannicide written by Emily Blanck and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with History categories.
Tyrannicide uses a captivating story of the escape of thirty-four slaves from a British privateer to unpack the experiences of slavery and slave law in South Carolina and Massachusetts during the Revolutionary Era, highlighting differences and foreshadowing the Civil War.
The Brutus Revival
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Author : Manfredi Piccolomini
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 1991
The Brutus Revival written by Manfredi Piccolomini and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with History categories.
In a discussion of the Renaissance revival of classical culture, Piccolomini considers the period s mythologizing of Brutus, Caesar s assassin. He cites Dante as the initiator of an important literary, dramatic, political, and artistic theme and explains how the historical Brutus was changed by literature and theatre into a symbol of the just citizen rebelling against the unjust tyrant.Piccolomini discusses several Renaissance political conspiracies modeled after Brutus act and explores how those conspiracies, in turn, formed the basis for the theme s recurrence in Italian, French, and English theatre of the period."
Tyrannicide
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Author : Evan Keliher
language : en
Publisher: Evan Keliher
Release Date : 2007-12
Tyrannicide written by Evan Keliher and has been published by Evan Keliher this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12 with Humor categories.
TYRANNICIDE is the story of the century with a tale of dead politicians, mysterious strangers, international intrigue, armed insurrectionists, midnight flights to Cairo, and widespread corruption. TYRANNICIDE offers a foolproof plan that will return the country to its rightful owners: THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!
The Tyrant Slayers Of Ancient Athens
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Author : Vincent Azoulay
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
The Tyrant Slayers Of Ancient Athens written by Vincent Azoulay 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 2017 with Art categories.
This investigation relies on a rash bet: to write the biography of two of the most famous statues in Antiquity, the Tyrannicides. Representing the murderers of the tyrant Hipparchus in full action, these statues erected on the Agora of Athens have been in turn worshipped, outraged, and imitated. They have known hours of glory and moments of hardships, which have transformed them into true icons of Athenian democracy. The subject of this book is the remarkable story of this group statue and the ever-changing significance of its tyrant-slaying subjects. The first part of this book, in six chapters, tells the story of the murder of Hipparchus and of the statues of the two tyrannicides from the end of the sixth century to the aftermath of the restoration of democracy in 403. The second part, in three chapters, chronicles the fate and influence of the statues from the fourth century to the end of the Roman Empire. These chapters are followed by an epilogue that reveals new life for the statues in modern art and culture, including how Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union made use of their iconography. By tracing the long trajectory of the tyrannicides-in deed and art-Azoulay provides a rich and fascinating microhistory that will be of interest to readers of classical art and history.