Author: Hue-Tam Ho Tai
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: revolution, vietnamese, origins, radicalism
Number of Pages: 325
Published: 1996-02-01
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0674746139
ISBN-13: 9780674746138

This work looks at the influence of radicalism on a crucial point in Vietnamese history. It reveals an era of student strikes, debates on women’s emancipation, revolt against the patriarchal family and intellectual explorations of French and Chinese politics and thought.

Author: Gordon S. Wood
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: revolution, american, radicalism
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 1993-03-02
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0679736883
ISBN-13: 9780679736882

In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian depicts much more than a break with England. He gives readers a revolution that transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging realities sometimes baffled and disappointed its founding fathers.

Author: Mike Sanders
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: 19thc, radicalism, amp, women
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2004-11-11
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0415205298
ISBN-13: 9780415205290

Author: Mike Sanders
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: 19thc, radicalism, amp, women
Number of Pages: 624
Published: 2004-11-11
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0415205263
ISBN-13: 9780415205269

Author: Luther G. Tweeten
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: agriculture, populism, radicalism, terrorism
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 2002-12-20
List price: $74.99
ISBN-10: 0813821584
ISBN-13: 9780813821580

While terrorism in agriculture takes few lives, the misinformation emerging from the rhetoric of anti-globalists, radical environmentalists, and animal welfare extremists costs Americans billions of dollars in lost income every year. This controversial volume illuminates the political, economic, and global effects of these groups on the agricultural industry.The clear, concise, and readable book discusses specific events and issues, helping readers understand how radical agriculturalists think. Tweeten explains how half truths and false ideologies find their way into our political systems and

Author: Tahir Abba
Publisher: Edinburgh University Pre
Keywords: perspective, european, radicalism, political, islamic
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 2007-01-22
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0748625283
ISBN-13: 9780748625284

Islamic political radicalism in Europe has seen dramatic growth in recent times. This book offers a sociological, anthropological, psychological and political science analysis of the causes and consequences of this phenomenon. Authors explore the motivations behind such radicalism, focusing on an array of different factors including economic and social alienation, political and cultural marginalisation, gender and masculinity, and psychological issues, both at an individual and community level. Other issues discussed are the state responses, national and international, to the ’War on Ter

Author: Ronald Wintrobe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: radicalism, economy, political, extremism, rational
Number of Pages: 298
Published: 2006-08-14
List price: $94.99
ISBN-10: 0521859646
ISBN-13: 9780521859646

Extremists are people whose ideas or tactics are viewed as outside the mainstream. Looked at this way, extremists are not necessarily twisted or evil. But they can be, especially when they are intolerant and violent. What makes extremists turn violent? This book assumes that extremists are rational: given their ends, they choose the best means to achieve them. The analysis explains why extremist leaders use the tactics they do, and why they are often insensitive to punishment and to loss of life. It also explains how rational people can be motivated to die for the cause. The book covers differ