B.H. Blackwell

B.H. Blackwell
Author: B.H. Blackwell Ltd
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1388
Release: 1928
Genre: Antiquarian booksellers
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Age of Assassins

Age of Assassins
Author: Michael Newton
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 704
Release: 2012-10-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0571290469

These were the crimes that were meant to change the world, and sometimes did. The book connects the killing of the Kennedys or the murder that sparked the First World War with less well-known stories, such as the Berlin shooting of an instigator of the Armenian genocide or the attack on an American 'robber baron'. Taking in Malcolm X and Queen Victoria, Adolf Hitler and Andy Warhol, Charles Manson and Emma Goldman, Tsars, Presidents, and pop stars, Age of Assassins traces the process that turned thought into action and murder into an icon. In tackling the history of political violence, the book is unique in its range and attention to detail, summoning up an age of assassination that is far from over.

Grand Opportunity

Grand Opportunity
Author: Timothy G. McMahon
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2008-05-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780815631583

In this groundbreaking work, Timothy McMahon reexamines the significance of the Gaelic revival in forming Ireland’s national identity. In their determination to preserve and extend the use of Irish as a spoken language and artistic medium, members of the Gaelic League profoundly influenced Irish culture and literature in the twentieth century. McMahon explores that influence by scrutinizing the ways in which society absorbed their messages, tracing the interaction between the ideas propagated by the League and the variety of meanings ordinary people attached to Ireland and to being Irish. Comparing press and police reports with census data and local directories, the author establishes the first comprehensive profile of League membership. McMahon’s ability to access both English- and Irish-language sources offers readers a rare and richly detailed analysis of primary materials. Grand Opportunity addresses questions that are central to understanding modern Irish identity and makes an indispensable contribution to the wider study of national identity formation.