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The wrong hands : popular weapons manuals and their historic challenges to a democratic society /

"In 1885, there was The Science of Revolutionary Warfare. In 1971, there was The Anarchist Cookbook. In 2012, the Boston Marathon bombers turned to the Internet to learn how to make explosives. For well over a century, the United States government has regarded the circulation of weapons manuals...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Larabee, Ann, 1957- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Science of Revolutionary Warfare; 2. Sabotage; 3. The Anarchist Cookbook; 4. Hitmen; 5. Monkeywrenching; 6. Ka Fucking Boom; 7. Vast Libraries of Jihad and Revolution; 8. Weapons of Mass Destruction; Conclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index. 
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