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The Routledge History of Terrorism
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ABSTRACT
Though the history of terrorism stretches back to the ancient world, today it is often understood as a recent development. Comprehensive enough to serve as a survey for students or newcomers to the field, yet with enough depth to engage the specialist, The Routledge History of Terrorism is the first single-volume authoritative reference text to place terrorism firmly into its historical context.
Terrorism is a transnational phenomenon with a convoluted history that defies easy periodization and narrative treatment. Over the course of 32 chapters, experts in the field analyze its historical significance and explore how and why terrorism emerged as a set of distinct strategies, tactics, and mindsets across time and space. Chapters address not only familiar topics such as the Northern Irish Troubles, the Palestine Liberation Organization, international terrorism, and the rise of al-Qaeda, but also lesser-explored issues such as:
- American racial terrorism
- state terror and terrorism in the Middle Ages
- tyrannicide from Ancient Greece and Rome to the seventeenth century
- the roots of Islamist violence
- the urban guerrilla, terrorism, and state terror in Latin America
- literary treatments of terrorism.
With an introduction by the editor explaining the book’s rationale and organization, as well as a guide to the definition of terrorism, an historiographical chapter analysing the historical approach to terrorism studies, and an eight-chapter section that explores critical themes in the history of terrorism, this book is essential reading for all those interested in the past, present, and future of terrorism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I State terror, tyrannicide, and terrorism in the pre-modern world
chapter 2|13 pages
Tyrannicide from Ancient Greece and Rome to the crisis of the seventeenth century
chapter 3|18 pages
Pre-modern terrorism: the cases of the Sicarii and the Assassins
part |2 pages
Part II The emergence of modern terrorism
chapter 8|19 pages
Anarchist terrorism and counter-terrorism in Europe and the world, 1878–1934
chapter 10|14 pages
American racial terrorism from Brown to Booth to Birmingham
part |2 pages
Part III Terrorism in the twentieth century
chapter 13|14 pages
Britain’s small wars: the Empire strikes back, 1952–68
chapter 15|21 pages
Violence in the Algerian War of Independence: terror, counter-terror, and compliance
chapter 19|13 pages
The urban guerrilla, terrorism, and state terror in Latin America
part |2 pages
Part IV Recent decades
chapter 23|16 pages
Politics, religion, and the making of terrorism in Pakistan and India
part |2 pages
Part V Critical themes in the history of terrorism
chapter 27|17 pages
Counter-terrorism and conspiracy: historicizing the struggle against terrorism
part |2 pages
Part VI The historiography of terrorism