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Waller R. Newell: Tyrants: A History of Power, Injustice, and Terror

New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 254 pp. $29.95. ISBN: 978-1107083059

Society volume 54, pages 383–387 (2017)Cite this article

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Newell offers a typology of tyrants: the profit-and-pleasure-seeking “garden variety”; the would-be “reformers”; and the genocidal “millenarians.” Ranging widely across the globe and through the centuries, he provides a link between political philosophy and tyrannical practice that is often missing in the scholarly literature.

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Morrisey, W. Waller R. Newell: Tyrants: A History of Power, Injustice, and Terror . Soc 54, 383–387 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-017-0160-7

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Keywords

  • Tyrants
  • Achilles
  • Augustus
  • Machiavelli
  • Christianity
  • Millenarianism
  • Historicism
  • Rousseau
  • Nietzsche
  • Islamism