LEADER 00000nim a22004455a 4500 003 MWT 005 20210526011953.0 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 210507s2020 xxunnn es i n eng d 020 9781696602556 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 020 1696602556 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 029 https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ rcb_9781696602556_180.jpeg 028 42 MWT13503900 037 13503900|bMidwest Tape, LLC|nhttp://www.midwesttapes.com 040 Midwest|erda 099 eAudiobook hoopla 099 eAudiobook hoopla 100 1 Wilson, T. K. 245 10 Killing strangers.|nHow Political Violence Became Modern |h[Hoopla electronic resource] /|cT. K. Wilson. 250 Unabridged. 264 1 [United States] :|bHighBridge,|c2020. 264 2 |bMade available through hoopla 300 1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 38 min.)) : |bdigital. 336 spoken word|bspw|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 344 digital|hdigital recording|2rda 347 data file|2rda 506 Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 1 Read by Matthew Lloyd Davies. 520 A bewildering feature of so much contemporary political violence is its stunning impersonality. Every major city center becomes a potential shooting gallery; and every metro system a potential bomb alley. Victims just happen, as the saying goes, to "be in the wrong place at the wrong time." We accept this contemporary reality-at least to some degree. But we rarely ask: where has it come from historically? Killing Strangers tackles this question head on. It examines how such violence became "unchained" from interpersonal relationships. It traces the rise of such impersonal violence by examining violence in conjunction with changing social and political realities. In particular, it traces both "push" and "pull"-the ability of modern states to force the violence of their challengers into niche forms: and the disturbing new opportunities that technological changes offer to cause mayhem in fresh and original ways. Killing Strangers therefore aims to highlight the very strangeness of contemporary experience when it is viewed against a long- term perspective. Atrocities regularly capture media attention-and just as quickly fade from public view. That is both tragic-and utterly predictable. Deep down we expect no different. So Killing Strangers deliberately asks the very simplest of questions. How on earth did we get here? 538 Mode of access: World Wide Web. 650 4 History 655 0 Audiobooks 700 1 Davies, Matthew Lloyd. 710 2 hoopla digital. 856 40 |uhttps://www.hoopladigital.com/title/ 13503900?utm_source=MARC|zInstantly available on hoopla. 856 42 |zCover image|uhttps://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ rcb_9781696602556_180.jpeg