The Revolutionary Mystique and Terrorism in Contemporary Italy - Richard Drake

The Revolutionary Mystique and Terrorism in Contemporary Italy

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Buch | Hardcover
254 Seiten
2021 | 2nd New edition
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-05712-9 (ISBN)
77,30 inkl. MwSt
What drives terrorists to glorify violence? In The Revolutionary Mystique and Terrorism in Contemporary Italy, Richard Drake seeks to explain the origins of Italian terrorism and the role that intellectuals played in valorizing the use of violence for political or social ends.

Drake argues that a combination of socioeconomic factors and the influence of intellectual elites led to a sanctioning of violence by revolutionary political groups in Italy between 1969 and 1988. Drake explores what motivated Italian terrorists on both the Left and the Right during some of the most violent decades in modern Italian history and how these terrorists perceived the modern world as something to be destroyed rather than reformed.

In 1989, The Revolutionary Mystique and Terrorism in Contemporary Italy received the Howard R. Marraro Prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies. It was awarded for the best book that year on Italian history. The book is reissued now with a new introduction for the light it might shed on current terrorist challenges. The Italians had success in combating terrorism. We might learn something from their example. The section of the book dealing with the Italian "superfascist" philosopher, Julius Evola, holds special interest today. Drake's original work takes on new significance in the light of Evola's recent surge of popularity for members of America's alt-right movement. 

Richard Drake is the Lucile Speer Research Professor in Politics and History at the University of Montana. His other book publications are Byzantium for Rome: The Politics of Nostalgia in Umbertian Italy, 1878-1900, The Aldo Moro Murder Case, Apostles and Agitators: Italy's Marxist Revolutionary Tradition, The Education of an Anti-Imperialist: Robert La Follette and U.S. Expansion, and Charles Austin Beard: The Return of the Master Historian of American Imperialism.

Introduction for the Second Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Contemporary Italian Terrorism and the Limits of History
1. The Two Faces of Italian Terrorism: 1969-1974
2. Surging Red Brigadism: 1975-1977
3. Living the Revolution
4. Aldo Moro and Italy's Difficult Democracy
5. 7 aprile 1979
6. The Blast Furnace of Terrorism: 1979-1980
7. The Children of the Sun
8. The Crisis and Defeat of the Red Brigades: 1980-1982
Conclusion
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 7 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort Bloomington, IN
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 572 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 0-253-05712-4 / 0253057124
ISBN-13 978-0-253-05712-9 / 9780253057129
Zustand Neuware
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