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Fanaticism and Conflict in the Modern Age book cover

1st Edition

Fanaticism and Conflict in the Modern Age

Edited By MATTHEW HUGHES, Gaynor Johnson Copyright 2005
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge
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What is fanaticism? Is the term at all useful? After all, one person's fanatic is another's freedom fighter. This new book probves these key questions of the twenty first century. It details how throughout history there have been fanatics eager to pursue their religious, political or personal agendas. Fanaticism has fuelled many of the conflicts of the twentieth century, in particular the... Read more
1. Fanaticism in the Modern Era  2. Dervishes and Fanaticism: Perception and Impact  3. Fanaticism, Japanese Soldiers and the Pacific War, 1937-45  4. Fanaticism and the Barbarisation of the Pacific War, 1941-45  5. Unprecedented, Merciless and Unrelenting Harshness: Fanaticism and Brutalisation in Wehrmacht Anti-Partisan Warfare in the Soviet Union  6. Indoctrinated Nazi teenaged warriors: the fanaticism of the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend in Normandy, 1944  7. Fanaticism and Guerrilla Warfare in the Late Twentieth Century  8. 'Fanaticism: the Algerian Experience'  9. Fanatics, Mobs and Terrorists: The Dynamics of Orange Parades in Northern Ireland  10. 'Religious and Nationalist Fanaticism: The Case of Hammas

Biography

Matthew Hughes is Senior Lecturer in Military and International History at the University of Salford. Dr Hughes's recent publications include Allenby and British Strategy in the Middle East (London: Frank Cass, 1999), Does Peace Lead to War? Peace Settlements and Conflict in the Modern Age (Stroud: Sutton, 2002) and Allenby in Palestine: the Middle East Correspondence of Field Marshal Viscount Allenby, June 1917-October 1919 (London: Army Records Society 2004).
Gaynor Johnson is Senior Lecturer in History at Bolton Institute. Dr Johnson is a diplomatic and international historian of the twentieth century whose recent publications include: The Berlin Embassy of Lord D'Abernon, 1920-1926 (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002) and the editor of Locarno Revisted: European Diplomacy 1920-1929 (London: Frank Cass, 2004), Our Man in Berlin: The Diary of Sir Eric Phipps, 1933-1937 (London: Brasseys, 2004) and The Foreign Office and British Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century (London: Frank Cass, 2004).

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