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In the 1880s a New York-based faction of militant Irish nationalists conducted the first urban bombing campaign in history, targeting symbolic public buildings in Britain with homemade bombs. This book investigates the people and ideas behind this spectacular new departure in revolutionary violence. Employing a transnational approach, the book reveals connections and parallels between the 'dynamiters' and other revolutionary groups active at the time and demonstrates how they interacted with currents in revolution, war and politics across Europe, the United States and the British Empire. Reconstructing the life stories of individual dynamiters and their conceptual and ethical views on violence, it offers an innovative picture of the dynamics of revolutionary organizations as well as the political, social and cultural factors which move people to support or condemn acts of political violence.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Dynamiters
• Subtitle: Irish Nationalism and Political Violence in the Wider World, 1867-1900
• Author: Niall Whelehan
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 342
• EAN: 9781107519213
• ISBN: 1107519217
• ID: 09181657
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 498 g
• Dimensions: 231 × 153 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. May 2015

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