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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: rise of devils
    sub title: fear and the origins of modern terrorism
  name:
    name part: Crossland, James
    name part: (Historian)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxvi, 345 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: In the dying light of the nineteenth century, the world came to know and fear terrorism. Much like today, this was a time of progress and dread, in which breakthroughs in communications and weapons were made, political reforms were implemented and immigration waves bolstered the populations of ever-expanding cities. This era also simmered with political rage and social inequalities, which drove nationalists, nihilists, anarchists and republicans to dynamite cities and discharge pistols into the bodies of presidents, police chiefs and emperors. This wave of terrorism was seized upon by an outrage-hungry press that peddled hysteria, conspiracy theories and, sometimes, fake news in response, convincing many a reader that they were living through the end of days. Against the backdrop of this world of fear and disorder, the rise of devils chronicles the journeys of the men and women who evoked this panic and created modern terrorism, revolutionary philosophers, cult leaders, criminals and charlatans, as well as the paranoid police chiefs and unscrupulous spies who tried to thwart them. In doing so, this book explains how radicals once thought just in their causes became, as Pope Pius IX denounced them, little more than 'devils risen up from Hell.'
  note: James Crossland.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Terrorism
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Political violence
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  classification: HV6431 .C76 2023
  classification: 363.32509/034
  identifier: 9781526160676
  identifier: 1526160676
  identifier: 9781526160683
  identifier: 9781526160690
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 221103
    record change date: 20230811152406.2
    record identifier: in00004726341