| Description |
xv, 363 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Terror and tyrannicide in the Ancient world -- Terror and tyrannicide in the Middle Ages -- Terror and tyrannicide in the early Modern Era in Europe -- The dawn of revolutionary terrorism -- Russian revolutionary terrorism -- The era of European Attentat -- Labor, anarchy, and terror in America -- White supremacy and American racial terrorism -- The dawn of ethno-nationalist terrorism -- The era of state terror -- Decolonization and ethno-nationalist terrorism from the 1930s to the early 1960s -- Decolonization and ethno-nationalist terrorism from the late 1960s to the present -- The era of leftist and international terrorism -- The rise of Jihadist terrorism -- Alternative terrorisms -- 9/11, the War on Terror, and recent trends in terrorism |
| Summary |
The book leads the reader through the shifting understandings and definitions of terrorism through the ages, providing an understanding of the uses of and responses to terrorism. Extentisvely covers jihadism, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, Northern Ireland and the Ku Klux Klan, plus many other movements |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Terrorism -- History.
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| ISBN |
0745640389 paperback |
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9780745640389 paperback |
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9780745640372 |
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0745640370 |
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