Actions for Terrorist attacks on American soil [electronic resource] : from the Civil War era to the present
Terrorist attacks on American soil [electronic resource] : from the Civil War era to the present / J. Michael Martinez
- Author
- Martinez, J. Michael (James Michael)
- Published
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2012]
- Copyright Date
- ©2012
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 475 pages) : illustrations
Access Online
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I THE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- 1."A Sight Which Can Never Be Forgotten": The Mountain Meadows Massacre (1857) -- 2."The Gentle, Kindhearted Bioterrorist": Luke Pryor Blackburn and the Yellow Fever Plot (1864-1865) -- 3."We May Suspect That Race Was the Cause of the Hostility": The Colfax Massacre (1873) -- pt. II THE MODERN ERA -- 4."The McNamaras Have Betrayed Labor": The Los Angeles Times Bombing (1910) -- 5."An Explosion Just Like the Sound of a Gatling Gun": The Wall Street Bombing (1920) -- 6."A President Has to Expect These Things": The Truman Assassination Attempt (1950) -- 7."The Klan Is Back on the Market": The Sixteenth Street Bombing and the Civil Rights Movement (1963) -- 8."You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows": Weatherman and the Counterculture Movement (1960s) -- pt. III POSTMODERN TERROR -- 9."A Revolution against the Industrial System": The Unabomber (1970s-1990s) -- 10."How Charged with Punishments the Scroll": The Oklahoma City Bombing (1995) -- 11."There Is a Bomb in Centennial Park; You Have Thirty Minutes": Eric Robert Rudolph (Late 1990s) -- 12."The System Was Blinking Red": The Radical Islamic Movement and the September 11 Attacks -- pt. IV CONCLUSION.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9781442203242 (electronic bk.)
1442203242 (electronic bk.) - Note
- AVAILABLE ONLINE TO AUTHORIZED PSU USERS.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Technical Details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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