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The wrong hands : popular weapons manuals and their historic challenges to a democratic society / Ann Larabee

New York : Oxford University Press [[2015]], 2015

1 Online-Ressource

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: Larabee, Ann, 1957- : Wrong hands (Druck-Ausgabe)

0-19-020118-5 (electronic bk.); 978-0-19-020118-0 (electronic bk.)

0-19-020117-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-19-020118-5 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

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LOC-SH: Explosives -- Handbooks, manuals, etc -- History ; Weapons -- Handbooks, manuals, etc -- History ; Political violence -- United States -- History ; Terrorism -- United States -- History ; Underground literature -- United States -- History ; Radicalism -- United States -- History

United States ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; General ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Constitutions ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Violence in Society ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; Explosives ; Political violence ; Radicalism ; Terrorism ; Underground literature ; Weapons ; History

Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- Chapter One: The Science of Revolutionary Warfare -- Chapter Two: Sabotage -- Chapter Three: The Anarchist Cookbook -- Chapter Four: Hitmen -- Chapter Five: Monkeywrenching -- Chapter Six: Ka Fucking Boom -- Chapter Seven: Vast Libraries of Jihad and Revolution -- Chapter Eight: Weapons of Mass Destruction -- Conclusion -- Bibliography

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"A fascinating, timely, and often disturbing history of how underground do-it-yourself weapons manuals have influenced violent radicalism, and how the state has responded"--