America's use of terror : from Colonial times to the A-bomb / Stephen Huggins.
America's use of terror : from Colonial times to the A-bomb / Stephen Huggins.
America's use of terror : from Colonial times to the A-bomb / Stephen Huggins.
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Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, [2019]
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G 2020/0386
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English
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vii, 360 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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What is terrorism? -- State terrorism, a sad historical fact -- America, the morally exceptional state -- The territorial cleansing of Native Americans -- Revolution, but no respite for Native Americans -- Terror during the American Revolution -- The terrorism of American slavery -- State terrorism...
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Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, [2019]
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Kansas
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[2019]
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""Terrorism" is generally defined as the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, as a means to achieve political aims. American Exceptionalism--the belief that we are morally better than other nations, a "shining city on a hill" whose beams radiate into the world--precludes that we would engage in that kind of behav...
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America's use of terror : from Colonial times to the A-bomb / Stephen Huggins.
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"This work evolved from my 2013 History PhD dissertation at the University of Georgia"-- Author's acknowledgements.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-338) and index.
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G 2020/0386
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74VKaZ2w5zpb
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9780700628551 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
070062855X (cloth ; acid-free paper)
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327.117
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991024287493502626
