The business of martyrdom
Subtitle: a history of suicide bombing
By: Jeffrey W. Lewis
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Annapolis, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9781612510514; 9781612510972
Subjects: Suicide bombings; Terrorism; History; Suicide bombers
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Martyrdom as innovation: the invention of suicide bombing in Imperial Russia; title: The weapon of martyrdom: Lebanon, 1981-1985; title: Martyrdom and control: the reinvention of suicide bombing by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam; title: Trial runs: the provisional IRA and the Workers' Party of Kurdistan; title: Managing martyrdom, part I: Palestinian suicide bombing in the 1990s; title: Managing martyrdom, part II: Palestinian suicide bombing in the second Intifada and after, 2000-2010; title: Globalized martyrdom: the Jihadi movement and suicide bombing after 9/11; title: The business of martyrdom.