Melbourne Writers' Festival
July 21st 2008 08:24
AWARD WINNING WRITER MICHAEL BURLEIGH WILL BE A GUEST AT THIS YEAR’S
MELBOURNE WRITERS' FESTIVAL
Distinguished historian and journalist Michael Burleigh will be speaking at this year's Melbourne Writers Festival (August 22nd - 31st). His most recent book, published by HarperCollins earlier this year, is Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism, in which he aims to make sense of the contemporary chaos surrounding terrorism by illustrating links and trends from a global perspective in a gripping, violent but compelling work.
Praise for Michael Burleigh:
Michael Burleigh is one of the most original historians writing today Mail on Sunday
One of the leading historians of our time Independent on Sunday
About Blood & Rage:
Basing his study on a wide range of sources and key players, Burleigh explains and defines the meaning of terrorism and marks its progression from its hard-to-trace beginnings to the modern-day. Burleigh aims to elucidate the mind-set of people who use political violence and explore the background and the milieu of the people involved. Blood & Rage examines the role and development of groups such as the IRA and ETA, and their effect on global terrorism in the modern world. Included in this is the first globally inclusive account of Islamist terrorism between the 1980s and the present day.
Burleigh's extensive research includes interviews with senior military and police figures, and with former soldiers. It becomes clear that the West has considerable resources with which to comprehend and combat terrorism - despite consistently failing to do so - and highlights the shamefully inadequate nature of US public diplomacy. The book also includes a number of practical suggestions as to how terrorism can be combated both ideologically and militarily.
Blood & Rage is an unrivaled study that sheds an insightful new light on, and a refreshingly complex analysis of, a plight that threatens to affect the world at large for many years to come; it establishes Michael Burleigh as one of the most original, learned and important historians of our time.
About the author:
Michael Burleigh is also the author of Sacred Causes and Earthly Powers, both of which were published by HarperCollins. His work has been translated into fifteen languages and his book The Third Reich: A New History won the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2001. He writes for several newspapers on religion, history and politics. He is a member of the Academic Advisory Board at the Institut fur Zeitgeschichte in Munich and wrote this book while a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. He is married and lives in London.
The Melbourne Writers' Festival brings writers, ideas and readers together with over 300 of the best international and Australian authors from 22 August to 31 August 2008 at Federation Square, Melbourne.
This move to the heart of Melbourne at Federation Square heralds a new era with over 270 sessions planned at the BMW Edge, the Australian Centre of Moving Image and other venues.
There will also be outdoor events; free events; live streaming; launches, children’s activities; the festival club and more.
Audiences will have the opportunity to engage with the written word with writers from across the spectrum – the novelist, social and cultural commentators, sports writers, philosophers, poets, screenwriters, historians, journalists plus more.
The key note address at the Melbourne Town Hall opens the 10 idea-packed day festival. Big Ideas @ RMIT Capitol Theatre is a series of 10 debates which hooks into the zeitgeist, tackling the issues surrounding politics, international and domestic affairs, culture and technology.
MELBOURNE WRITERS' FESTIVAL
Distinguished historian and journalist Michael Burleigh will be speaking at this year's Melbourne Writers Festival (August 22nd - 31st). His most recent book, published by HarperCollins earlier this year, is Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism, in which he aims to make sense of the contemporary chaos surrounding terrorism by illustrating links and trends from a global perspective in a gripping, violent but compelling work.
Praise for Michael Burleigh:
Compelling … hugely ambitious … Burleigh is a writer who pulls no punches and seldom leaves a difficult question unasked Sunday Telegraph (UK)
Michael Burleigh is one of the most original historians writing today Mail on Sunday
One of the leading historians of our time Independent on Sunday
About Blood & Rage:
Basing his study on a wide range of sources and key players, Burleigh explains and defines the meaning of terrorism and marks its progression from its hard-to-trace beginnings to the modern-day. Burleigh aims to elucidate the mind-set of people who use political violence and explore the background and the milieu of the people involved. Blood & Rage examines the role and development of groups such as the IRA and ETA, and their effect on global terrorism in the modern world. Included in this is the first globally inclusive account of Islamist terrorism between the 1980s and the present day.
Burleigh's extensive research includes interviews with senior military and police figures, and with former soldiers. It becomes clear that the West has considerable resources with which to comprehend and combat terrorism - despite consistently failing to do so - and highlights the shamefully inadequate nature of US public diplomacy. The book also includes a number of practical suggestions as to how terrorism can be combated both ideologically and militarily.
Blood & Rage is an unrivaled study that sheds an insightful new light on, and a refreshingly complex analysis of, a plight that threatens to affect the world at large for many years to come; it establishes Michael Burleigh as one of the most original, learned and important historians of our time.
About the author:
Michael Burleigh is also the author of Sacred Causes and Earthly Powers, both of which were published by HarperCollins. His work has been translated into fifteen languages and his book The Third Reich: A New History won the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2001. He writes for several newspapers on religion, history and politics. He is a member of the Academic Advisory Board at the Institut fur Zeitgeschichte in Munich and wrote this book while a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. He is married and lives in London.
The Melbourne Writers' Festival brings writers, ideas and readers together with over 300 of the best international and Australian authors from 22 August to 31 August 2008 at Federation Square, Melbourne.
This move to the heart of Melbourne at Federation Square heralds a new era with over 270 sessions planned at the BMW Edge, the Australian Centre of Moving Image and other venues.
There will also be outdoor events; free events; live streaming; launches, children’s activities; the festival club and more.
Audiences will have the opportunity to engage with the written word with writers from across the spectrum – the novelist, social and cultural commentators, sports writers, philosophers, poets, screenwriters, historians, journalists plus more.
The key note address at the Melbourne Town Hall opens the 10 idea-packed day festival. Big Ideas @ RMIT Capitol Theatre is a series of 10 debates which hooks into the zeitgeist, tackling the issues surrounding politics, international and domestic affairs, culture and technology.
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