Authors:Walter Reich,  Walter Laqueur,
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Pre
Keywords: states, mind, theologies, ideologies, terrorism, psychologies, origins
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1998-09-18
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0943875897
ISBN-13: 9780943875897

Terrorists and terrorism have become a major force internationally. Hostage-taking and other acts of violence for political ends are common all over the globe. This groundbreaking study sheds new light on the phenomenon of terrorism. This book examines and explains the nature and sources of terrorists’ beliefs, actions, goals, worldviews, and states of mind. Origins of Terrorism addresses, with scholarly responsibility as well as necessary urgency, one of the most vexing intellectual and political challenges of our time. The contributors to this book bring deep learning and experience in

Authors:Judith Tydor Baumel,  Walter Laqueur,
Publisher: Yale University Pre
Keywords: encyclopedia, holocaust
Number of Pages: 816
Published: 2001-03-01
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0300084323
ISBN-13: 9780300084320

Although most libraries now contain many shelves of books describing various aspects of the Holocaust, comprehensive one-volume histories or reference books on the subject are rare. Thus, The Holocaust Encyclopedia, edited by Walter Lacquer (a modern European historian who has taught at Harvard, Brandeis, and Tel Aviv University, among others), fills an important gap in existing Holocaust literature. His book gathers accessible articles by many of the world’s leading Holocaust scholars on the full range of people and places involved, from Adolph Hitler and Gypsies to Russia and the Sovie

Author: Walter Laqueur
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: times, present, day, ancient, semitism, face, anti, changing
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2008-06-30
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 019534121X
ISBN-13: 9780195341218

For thirty years the director of the Wiener Library in London--the leading institute for the study of anti-Semitism--Walter Laqueur here offers both a comprehensive history of anti-Semitism as well as an illuminating look at the newest wave of this phenomenon. Laqueur begins with an invaluable historical account of this pernicious problem, tracing the evolution from a predominantly religious anti-Semitism--stretching back to the middle ages--to a racial anti-Semitism that developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The author then uses this historical account as backdrop to a brillian

Author: Walter Laqueur
Publisher: Schocke
Keywords: state, israel, establishment, revolution, zionism, french, history
Number of Pages: 688
Published: 2003-05-20
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0805211497
ISBN-13: 9780805211498

’The best single volume for the general reader.’’

Author: Walter Laqueur
Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Keywords: zionism, history
Number of Pages: 672
Published: 2003-08-22
List price: $35.05
ISBN-10: 1860649327
ISBN-13: 9781860649325

This text offers a definitive account of Zionism. The term "Zionism" was first coined at the end of the 19th century, but the idea long reflected the misery of Jewish existence in central and eastern Europe, and the longing for the ancient homeland. Updated, and with a new preface, Walter Laqueur’s comprehensive history begins with a discussion of the background of Zionism since the French Revolution, covers the many decades of Zionist activities worldwide, and ends with the establishment of the state of Israel.

Author: Walter Laqueur
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: future, present, past, fascism
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1997-12-11
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 019511793X
ISBN-13: 9780195117936

In Fascism: Past, Present, and Future, renowned historian Walter Laqueur illuminates the fascist phenomenon, from the emergence of Hitler and Mussolini, to Vladimir Zhirinovsky and his cohorts, to fascism’s not so distant future. Laqueur describes how fascism’s early achievements won many converts. But what successes early fascist parties can claim, Laqueur points out, are certainly overwhelmed by its disasters: Hitler may have built the Autobahnen, but he also launched the war that destroyed them. Laqueur tellingly uncovers contemporary adaptations of fascist tactics and strategie

Author: Thomas Laqueur
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: freud, greeks, gender, sex, making
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1992-02-01
List price: $24.50
ISBN-10: 0674543556
ISBN-13: 9780674543553

This is a book about the making an unmaking of sex over the centuries. It tells the astonishing story of sex in West from the ancients to the moderns in a precise account of the history of reproductive anatomy and physiology.