Political Murder: From Tyrannicide to Terrorism

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Introduction PART ONE: THE LESSONS OF ANTIQUITY 1. Jehovah's Children and His Enemies Bible as Source In the Days of the Judges Life and Times of Joab Division and Fall of the Monarchy Governance under the Lord 2. Greeks Darkness and Light in Hellas Strange Case of Athens Colonial Tyrants: Phalaris of Acragas Dionysius and Dion of Syracuse Tyrannies North and East Macedonia Adventure Birth of Tyrannicide Theory 3. Rome A Republic of Laws Gracchi Pompey, Caesar, Cicero Empire as Epilogue What the Romans Showed 4. Other Peoples, Other Lands Reports from the Neighbors Rival Powers Greater Asia: Sins of Devadatta Continents Known and Unknown 5. Zealots, Barbarians, and Assassins A Time of Transition Palestine and the Roman Imperium German Invaders and Their Ways Islam: Victories and Divisions Ismailis and the Hashishiyyin PART TWO: THE EUROPEAN CENTURIES 6. High Middle Ages Causes and Limits of Change Kings, Lords, and Churchmen Murder at Canterbury Some Early Christian Views Two Schoolmen on Tyrannicide 7. A Age of Princes Dynasts Fifteenth-Century France Renaissance Italy From Polemics to Analysis: Guicciardini Machiavelli 8. Religious Warfare and Reason of State A Century of Bloodshed Monarchomachs Coligny and William the Silent Queen in Danger? Henry of Navarre Wallenstein Trial and Punishment 9. Early Modern Interlude Dog That Did Not Bark in the Night Signs of Revulsion Some Likely Victims Spared Remnants of Violence Eighteenth Century Revolution in France End of the Remission 10. Nineteenth Century An Old, but Widening Stage Kotzebue Killing Orsini in Paris, 1858 Tsar and The People's Will Phoenix Park PART THREE: THE MODERN WORLD 11. Civilization in the Balance Before 1914 First War Russian Shambles Terrible Twenties: Two Ends of Europe Weimar Germany 1930s: Terror and the State Thirties: Russia and Germany 12. War II and After Some Noteworthy Victims Heydrich, Darlan, and the Resistance The Fuhrer Must Go! Settling Accounts Different Battles on Changing Lines 13. Recent Times Mass and Location Independence and Nationhood Nihilists Historic Targets: Schleyer, Moro, and the Pope Post-Colonial Crises Africa Enters the Arena Middle East 14. Americas: Latin, British, and French Where Does the New World Fit? English Islands Canada--and Quebec 15. United States Conceived and Born in Violence? Watershed of the Civil War Madmen or Zealots? Centers of Controversy: Weiss, Oswald, and Ray Official Connections Conclusion: Looking Backward and Forward Notes Index

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