Terrorism : a history / Randall D. Law.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Law, Randall David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Terrorism--History.

Terrorism.

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 363 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2009.

Summary:

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 Terrorim: 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 inovements in Uruguay. Algeria, and even the pre-modern uses of terror in ancient Rome, medieval Europe, and the French Revolution, among other topics.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0745640389

9780745640389

9780745640372

0745640370

OCLC:

291391519