Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Strange Career of Tyranny
- Part One The Rage of Achilles: From Homeric Heroes to Lord and God of the World
- Part Two City of God or City of Man? The Tyrant as Modern State Builder
- Part Three The Eagles Will Drop Dead from the Skies: Millenarian Tyranny from Robespierre to Al Qaeda
- Conclusion How Democracy Can Win
- Reading for Further Interest
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2016
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Strange Career of Tyranny
- Part One The Rage of Achilles: From Homeric Heroes to Lord and God of the World
- Part Two City of God or City of Man? The Tyrant as Modern State Builder
- Part Three The Eagles Will Drop Dead from the Skies: Millenarian Tyranny from Robespierre to Al Qaeda
- Conclusion How Democracy Can Win
- Reading for Further Interest
- Index
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- TyrantsA History of Power, Injustice, and Terror, pp. 241 - 254Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016