Terrorism

A History

Randall Law (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2009
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-0-7456-4038-9 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

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

Inhalt

Acknowledgements Introduction Chronology of Important Dates Acronyms Chapter 1: Terror and Tyrannicide in the Ancient World Chapter 2: Terror and Tyrannicide in the Middle Ages Chapter 3: Terror and Tyrannicide in the Early Modern Era in Europe Chapter 4: The Dawn of Revolutionary Terrorism Chapter 5: Russian Revolutionary Terrorism Chapter 6: The Era of the European Attentat Chapter 7: Labor, Anarchy, and Terror in America Chapter 8: White Supremacy and American Racial Terrorism Chapter 9: The Dawn of Ethno-Nationalist Terrorism Chapter 10: The Era of State Terror Chapter 11: Ethno-Nationalist Terrorism from the 1930s to the Early 1960s Chapter 12: Ethno-Nationalist Terrorism from the Late 1960s to the Present Chapter 13: The Era of Leftist and International Terrorism Chapter 14: The Rise of Jihadist Terrorism Chapter 15: Alternative Terrorisms Chapter 16: 9/11, the War on Terror, and Recent Trends in Terrorism

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.8.2009
• Reihe/Serie: Themes in History
• Verlagsort: Oxford
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 153 x 227 mm
• Gewicht: 572 g
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• ISBN-10: 0-7456-4038-9 / 0745640389
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-4038-9 / 9780745640389
• Zustand: Neuware