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Encyclopedia of Modern Worldwide Extremists and Extremist Groups
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Stephen E. Atkins
Book Code: GR2485
ISBN: 0-313-32485-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-32485-7
432 pages, photos
Greenwood Press
Publication: 5/30/2004
List Price: $82.95 (UK Sterling Price: £47.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 7 x 10
Subjects: Awards:
  • Reference Reviews Best Print Reference Source
  • 2004 New York Public Library Best of Reference
Reviews:
  • [A]tkins provides a comprehensive overview of the most significant worldwide extremists and extremist groups over the past half century. He skillfully interweaves the infamous and obscure, focusing on politically significant groups, individuals, and events....Recommended. All libraries.
    —Choice     November 2004
  • A distinguished work in its developing genre, intelligent and honest, amply meriting inclusion in all academic, reference and media libraries.
    —Reference Reviews     May 2005
  • Anyone who questions the nature and extent of modern terrorism and other forms of extremism need only look at this one-volume encyclopedia to have their doubts quelled. Its comprehensive coverage takes readers to all of the populated continents and to both extremes of the political spectrum....The encyclopedia is a good resource for courses in international relations, political science, world history, and for those with an interest in current affairs. Recommended.
    —Library Media Connection     February 2005
  • [S]erves as an important companion to the author's Encyclopedia of Modern American Extremists and Extremist Groups (Greenwood, 2002). A valuable resource for students needing concise histories of particular groups or individuals.
    —School Library Journal     February 2005
  • This work complements the author's valuable Encyclopedia of Modern American Extremists and Extremist Groups (Greenwood 2002)....[a]ccurate, clearly written....Encyclopedia of Modern Worldwide Extremists and Extremist Groups shows the value of examining the global scourge in a single volume.
    —Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin     October 15, 2004
Description: Extremism has taken root and grown the world over. These 290 alphabetically organized entries detail the notorious and often violent history, activities, and beliefs of the most active and influential extremists and extremist groups in operation around the globe. Atkins highlights the dark truth that people of all ideologies, religions, regions, and races share a readiness for violence. This will be a very useful guide to students and scholars looking for a quick and easy- to-use guide to those groups and persons whose acts have unfortunately dominated headlines over the past several decades. Well over three-quarter of the book's entries focus on extremist activity since 1980, with many entries providing historical perspectives that add a fullness of information found nowhere else. As a companion to the lauded Encyclopedia of Modern American Extremists and Extremists Groups, this work contains a wealth of information not found together anywhere else on groups and people such as English Neo-Nazis, Argentinean death squads, American ecoterrorists, Hindu xenophobes, and Japanese cults.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Extremists and Extremism
  • List of Entries
  • Worldwide Extremism and Extremists
  • Selected Bibliography on Worldwide Extremism
  • Chronology of Worldwide Extremism
LC Card Number: 2003064256
LCC Class: HN49
Dewey Class: 320
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