Terrorism: A History

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Polity, 10. kol 2009. - Broj stranica: 363
Terrorism is one of the forces defining our age, but it has also been around since some of the earliest civilizations. This one-of-a-kind study of the history of terrorism — from ancient Assyria to the post-9/11 War on Terror — puts terrorism into broad historical, political, religious and social context. The book leads the reader through the shifting understandings and definitions of terrorism through the ages, and its continuous development of themes allows for a fuller understanding of the uses of and responses to terrorism.

The study of terrorism is constantly growing and ever changing. In Terrorism: A History, Randall Law gives students and general readers access to this rich field through the most up-to-date research combined with a much-needed long-range historical perspective. He extensively covers jihadism, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, Northern Ireland and the Ku Klux Klan plus lesser known movements in Uruguay, Algeria and even the pre-modern uses of terror in ancient Rome, medieval Europe and the French Revolution, among other topics.
 

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Introduction
1
1 Terror and Tyrannicide in the Ancient World
11
2 Terror and Tyrannicide in the Middle Ages
32
3 Terror and Tyrannicide in the Early Modern Era in Europe
47
4 The Dawn of Revolutionary Terrorism
57
5 Russian Revolutionary Terrorism
74
6 The Era of the European Attentat
98
7 Labor Anarchy and Terror in America
114
10 The Era of State Terror
160
11 Decolonization and EthnoNationalist Terrorism from the 1930s to the Early 1960s
178
12 Decolonization and EthnoNationalist Terrorism from the Late 1960s to the Present
217
13 The Era of Leftist and International Terrorism
254
14 The Rise of Jihadist Terrorism
281
15 Alternative Terrorisms
316
16 911 the War on Terror and Recent Trends in Terrorism
330
Index
343

8 White Supremacy and American Racial Terrorism
126
9 The Dawn of EthnoNationalist Terrorism
142

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Randall Law is Associate Professor of History at Birmingham-Southern College.

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