Fraser Ottanelli: 2 books
Assassins against the Old Order
Italian Anarchist Violence in Fin de Siecle Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
The image of the anarchist assassin haunted the corridors of power and the popular imagination in the late nineteenth century. Fear spawned a gross but persistent stereotype: a swarthy "Italian" armed with a bloody knife or revolver and bred to violence by a combination of radical politics,...
The Asaba Massacre
Trauma, Memory, and the Nigerian Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
In October 1967, early in the Nigerian Civil War, government troops entered Asaba in pursuit of the retreating Biafran army, slaughtering thousands of civilians and leaving the town in ruins. News of the atrocity was suppressed by the Nigerian government, with the complicity of Britain, and its significance...