Such choices were determined by multiple factors. First, no comprehensive, detailed accounting of every known assassination or attempt throughout history could ever be contained within the covers of one volume—or, in this case, two.

Author: Michael Newton

Publisher: ABC-CLIO

ISBN: 9781610692861

Category: History

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Representing a unique reference tool for readers interested in history, criminology, or terrorism, this book provides the most complete and up-to-date coverage of assassinations of key figures throughout history and around the world. • Provides timely content about past assassinations that will enable students to better understand historical and contemporary social unrest • Introduces new information and theories on historic cases of assassination that in some cases afford novel interpretations of "what really happened" • Establishes the links between famous or notorious social movements and political assassinations, underscoring how an individual or a small group can be motivated to commit an act of violence by the climate of their society • Includes more than 20 primary source documents that provide accounts of assassinations in world history as well as numerous sidebars that augment the reading experience with interesting discussions of individuals, groups, movements, or events related to important assassinations

Famous Assassinations in World History: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2014. Picchi, Blaise. The Five Weeks of Giuseppe Zangara: The Man Who Would Assassinate FDR. Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, 1998.

Author: Lori Cox Han

Publisher: ABC-CLIO

ISBN: 9781440863424

Category: Political Science

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Americans like to think of their nation as one grounded in high-minded democratic ideals and peaceful transitions of power. In reality, though, American politics has been heavily laced with expressions of violence and intimidation since the nation's very inception, which saw a campaign of violent rebellion against British rule. Since then, America has endured the deaths of four presidents from assassination; a four-year civil war; racist attacks on civil rights activists and ordinary citizens; deadly clashes between protesting citizens and law enforcement; sustained campaigns of violence against marginalized populations seeking greater political or economic equality; politically motivated mass shootings; and, on January 6, 2021, the shocking spectacle of a politically motivated mob attack on the U.S. Capitol. How and why did these events transpire? What were the root causes? What factors are driving political violence and intimidation in America today? And are there changes that we could make to our country's political discourse that would reduce such outbreaks of bloodshed? This authoritative multivolume encyclopedia provides answers to all these questions and more.

Revolutions and assassinations seemed to follow closely on the heels of each other. In 1910, a revolution in neighboring Mexico led to a civil war in that country that persisted throughout the decade. In June 1914, the assassination of ...

Author: Nancy Hendricks

Publisher: ABC-CLIO

ISBN: 9781440851834

Category: History

Page: 870

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This informative two-volume set provides readers with an understanding of the fads and crazes that have taken America by storm from colonial times to the present. Entries cover a range of topics, including food, entertainment, fashion, music, and language. • Presents well-researched, factual material accessibly and engagingly • Presents what was popular in each decade through short sidebars • Illustrates what today's readers have in common with Americans of the past • Includes a historical overview of each decade • Contains a Glossary of Slang, a bibliography, and suggestions for further reading on each decade

For example, the Assassins of Syria and Iran were a group of medieval Shi'a Muslims whose members committed some famous political assassinations using daggers. One of the most notorious involved the murder of the newly elected King of ...

Author: Thomas A. Green

Publisher: ABC-CLIO

ISBN: 9781598842449

Category: Social Science

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This book is the most comprehensive and authoritative reference ever published on the wide range of martial arts disciplines practiced in cultures around the world. • Includes the scholarship of 67 expert, international contributors • Presents 30 images of martial arts in practice • Offers bibliographic lists at the end of each section pointing to further reading in print and online • Includes a comprehensive index in each volume

Johnson commissioned the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, more commonly known as the Warren Commission. Chaired by United States Chief Justice Earl Warren—who previously made his mark in legal history ...

Author: Mitchell Newton-Matza

Publisher: ABC-CLIO

ISBN: 9781610691666

Category: History

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From the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 to the Sandy Hook school massacre of 2012, this two-volume encyclopedia surveys tragic events—natural and man-made, famous and forgotten—that helped shape American history. • Covers a wide range of topics, from the infamous to the obscure • Places each event in context, giving it deeper meaning and showing its impact • Includes primary source material from U.S. Supreme Court cases, presidential speeches, eyewitness accounts, state and federal legislation, and federal government investigations • Brings the events it covers to life through photos and illustrations

Serious attempts were made on the life of the King Frederick with an infernal machine containing one thousand five hundred William II . , of Prussia , by an assassin named Tesch , who fired projectiles was frustrated by the activity of ...

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From early in 1960 and continuing to the time of the assassination, the, United States Government generally supported these dissidents. Some Government personnel were aware that the dissidents intended to kill Trujillo.

Author: Elizabeth Cobbs

Publisher: Cengage Learning

ISBN: 9781305886810

Category: History

Page: 528

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Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the MAJOR PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN HISTORY series introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in U.S. history. This collection serves as the primary anthology for the introductory survey course, covering the subject’s entire chronological span. Comprehensive topical coverage includes politics, economics, labor, gender, culture, and social trends. The fourth edition has been revised to reflect two new historiographical trends: the emergence of the history of religion as an exceptionally lively field and the internationalization of American history. Several chapters include images, songs, and poems to give students a better “feel” for the time period and events under discussion. Key pedagogical elements of the Major Problems format have been retained: 15 to 16 chapters per volume, chapter introductions, headnotes, and suggested readings. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Mooney, Fred, Struggle in the Coalfields: The Autobiography of Fred Mooney (West Virginia University Library, 1967) Morison, ... 2011) Nash,Jay Robert, The Great Pictorial History of World Crime, Volume 2 (Scarecrow Press, 2004) Nelli, ...

Author: Julie Sarpy

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

ISBN: 9781445688558

Category: History

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New, original research finally solves the riddle of the disappearance of Joanna of Flanders, described by David Hume as 'the most extraordinary woman of the age', early in the Hundred Years War.

Famous Assassinations and Attempts from Julius Caesar to John Lennon Stephen Spignesi ... Wells, H. G. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind, 2 Volumes. Garden City, N.Y.: Garden City Books, 1961.

Author: Stephen Spignesi

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

ISBN: 9781510713031

Category: History

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Assassinations often change the course of history. Here is an intriguing look at dozens of notable assassinations and attempts throughout history, including complete details about the assassin, the victim, the circumstances of the attack, and the outcome. In the Crosshairs also features photos of many of the victims or would-be victims, and rare archival material, including excerpts from original police reports. High-profile celebrities, political figures, religious leaders, and many others have fallen prey to assassins, and many have survived. In the Crosshairs is arranged in alphabetical order, by last name, and includes such details as: On November 8, 1939, Adolf Hitler narrowly escaped an assassination attempt – 12 minutes after he left a room where he was making a speech, a bomb went off. Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat would probably have survived the assassin’s bullet on October 6, 1981, if he hadn’t taken off his bulletproof vest – but he didn’t like the way it made his suit bulge. Robert John Bardo, the murderer of young actress Rebecca Schaeffer, carried with him to the crime scene a copy of J. D, Sallinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, just like Mark David Chapman did when he murdered John Lennon nearly nine years earlier. From notable murders (Abraham Lincoln, Gianni Versace, and Indira Gandhi) to little-known attempts (George W. Bush, Wild Bill Hickock, and Andy Warhol) here is a surprising, informative, and intriguing book that deserves to be on every history buff’s bookshelf. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Greenwood Milestones in African American History Nikki Brown, Barry M. Stentiford ... Calling for freedom and equality, King's most famous words still resonate: ''I have a dream that one day even that one day even the state of ...

Author: Nikki L. M. Brown

Publisher: ABC-CLIO

ISBN: 9780313341823

Category: Social Science

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Jim Crow refers to a set of laws in many states, predominantly in the South, after the end of Reconstruction in 1877 that severely restricted the rights and privileges of African Americans. As a caste system of enormous social and economic magnitude, the institutionalization of Jim Crow was the most significant element in African American life until the 1960s Civil Rights Movement led to its dismantling. Racial segregation, as well as responses to it and resistance against it, dominated the African American consciousness and continued to oppress African Americans and other minorities, while engendering some of the most important African American contributions to society. This major encyclopedia is the first devoted to the Jim Crow era. The era is encapsulated through more than 275 essay entries on such areas as law, media, business, politics, employment, religion, education, people, events, culture, the arts, protest, the military, class, housing, sports, and violence as well as through accompanying key primary documents excerpted as side bars. This set will serve as an invaluable, definitive resource for student research and general knowledge. The authoritative entries are written by a host of historians with expertise in the Jim Crow era. The quality content comes in an easy-to-access format. Readers can quickly find topics of interest, with alphabetical and topical lists of entries in the frontmatter, along with cross-references to related entries per entry. Further reading is provided per entry. Dynamic sidebars throughout give added insight into the topics. A chronology, selected bibliography, and photos round out the coverage. Sample entries include Advertising, Affirmative Action, Armed Forces, Black Cabinet, Blues, Brooklyn Dodgers, Bolling v. Sharpe, Confederate Flag, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Detroit Race Riot 1943, Ralph Ellison, Eyes on the Prize, G.I. Bill, Healthcare, Homosexuality, Intelligence Testing, Japanese Internment, Liberia, Minstrelsy, Nadir of the Negro, Poll Taxes, Rhythm and Blues, Rural Segregation, Sharecropping, Sundown Towns, Booker T. Washington, Works Project Administration, World War II.