Online History of Terrorism

Texts for HI 300ZA and HI 700XA

Author Title Publisher/Publication Date
Lawrence Wright The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 Knopf, 2006 ISBN: 037541486X
Walter Laqueur The New Terrorism: Fanaticism and the Arms of Mass Destruction Oxford, 2000 (Paper)
William Broad, Judith Miller, and Stephen Engelberg Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War Touchstone Books, 2002. (Paper)
Robert A. Pape Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism

Random House, 2005 ISBN: 0812973380

 
George Michael The Enemy of My Enemy: The Alarming Converge of Militant Islam and the Extreme Right

Kansas, 2006. ISBN: 0700614443

 
Michael Scheuer Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terrorism

Bassey’s, 2004.  ISBN: 1574888625

 

Most of these books can be checked out from a library in your hometown. See the hyperlink for the library that has those books near you. Kansas Blue Skyways offers students the opportunity to use the Kansas Library Catalog in order to locate books across the state by the click of your mouse.

To purchase the books in Emporia, you can use either the Memorial Union Bookstore on campus in the Student Union or the off campus bookshop at the Textbook Corner.  Likewise, student can go online at Abebooks, halfprice.com,  and Amazon as well as E. R. Hamilton Booksellers to compare prices with the  online book services.