Terrorism: a history
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 #x14; from ancient Assyria to the post-9/11 War on Terror #x14; 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 …
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- Full title :Terrorism : a history / Randall D. Law.
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 #x14; from ancient Assyria to the post-9/11 War on Terror #x14; 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. --Back cover.
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- Publication Date:©2009.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Polity Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2009.
The Physical Object
- Description:xv, 363 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0745640389, 9780745640389, 9780745640372, 0745640370
- oclc:on1037775854
- LC Classification:HV6431
- Dewey Decimal:303.625
Table of 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.
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