{"product_id":"killing-strangers-t-k-wilson-9780198863502","title":"Killing Strangers: How Political Violence Became Modern","description":"A bewildering feature of so much contemporary political violence is its stunning impersonality. Every major city centre 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'. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe accept this contemporary reality - at least to some degree. But we rarely ask: where has it come from historically? \u003cem\u003eKilling Strangers\u003c\/em\u003e tackles this question head on. It examines how such violence became 'unchained' from inter-personal 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eKilling Strangers\u003c\/em\u003e 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. And that is why such atrocities must be repeated if our attention is to be re-engaged. Deep down we expect that, too. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSo \u003cem\u003eKilling Strangers\u003c\/em\u003e deliberately asks the very simplest of questions. How on earth did we get here?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e T. K. Wilson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198863500\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198863502\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.00d","brand":"T. K. Wilson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44129826865407,"sku":"9780198863502","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_371c1e0c-c795-4075-bbc5-3727499857c6.jpg?v=1687466020","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/killing-strangers-t-k-wilson-9780198863502","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}