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      The Routledge History of Terrorism book

      Edited ByRandall D. Law
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2015
      eBook Published 10 April 2015
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315719061
      Pages 542
      eBook ISBN 9781315719061
      Subjects Humanities, Politics & International Relations
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      Law, R.D. (Ed.). (2015). The Routledge History of Terrorism (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315719061

      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

      chapter 1|12 pages

      Introduction

      ByRANDALL D. LAW

      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

      ByJOHANNES DILLINGER

      chapter 3|18 pages

      Pre-modern terrorism: the cases of the Sicarii and the Assassins

      ByDONATHAN TAYLOR, YANNICK GAUTRON

      chapter 4|15 pages

      Terrorism in the Middle Ages: the seeds of later developments

      BySTEVEN ISAAC

      part |2 pages

      Part II The emergence of modern terrorism

      chapter 5|14 pages

      The French Revolution and early European revolutionary terrorism

      ByMIKE RAPPORT

      chapter 6|15 pages

      Terrorism in America from the colonial period to John Brown

      ByMATTHEW JENNINGS

      chapter 7|19 pages

      Entangled terrorisms in late Imperial Russia

      ByMARTIN A. MILLER

      chapter 8|19 pages

      Anarchist terrorism and counter-terrorism in Europe and the world, 1878–1934

      ByRICHARD BACH JENSEN

      chapter 9|13 pages

      Anarchist terrorism in the United States

      ByTHAI JONES

      chapter 10|14 pages

      American racial terrorism from Brown to Booth to Birmingham

      ByR. BLAKESLEE GILPIN

      part |2 pages

      Part III Terrorism in the twentieth century

      chapter 11|18 pages

      State terrorism in early twentieth-century Europe

      ByPAUL M. HAGENLOH

      chapter 12|13 pages

      Britain’s small wars: the challenge to Empire, 1881–1951

      chapter 13|14 pages

      Britain’s small wars: the Empire strikes back, 1952–68

      ByBENJAMIN GROB-FITZGIBBON

      chapter 14|14 pages

      The Northern Irish Troubles

      ByCILLIAN McGRATTAN

      chapter 15|21 pages

      Violence in the Algerian War of Independence: terror, counter-terror, and compliance

      ByMARTIN C. THOMAS

      chapter 16|19 pages

      Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization

      ByBOAZ GANOR

      chapter 17|12 pages

      The roots of Islamism and Islamist violence

      ByJOHN CALVERT

      chapter 18|14 pages

      Islamist terrorism from the Muslim Brotherhood to Hamas

      ByDAVID COOK

      chapter 19|13 pages

      The urban guerrilla, terrorism, and state terror in Latin America

      ByJENNIFER S. HOLMES

      chapter 20|18 pages

      Militant organizations in Western Europe in the 1970s and 1980s

      ByHANNO BALZ

      part |2 pages

      Part IV Recent decades

      chapter 21|16 pages

      Contemporary domestic terrorism in the United States

      ByCAROLYN GALLAHER

      chapter 22|18 pages

      The genesis, rise, and uncertain future of al-Qaeda DAVEED GARTENSTEIN-ROSS

      chapter 23|16 pages

      Politics, religion, and the making of terrorism in Pakistan and India

      ByEAMON MURPHY

      part |2 pages

      Part V Critical themes in the history of terrorism

      chapter 24|14 pages

      Modernity and terrorism

      ByROGER GRIFFIN

      chapter 25|14 pages

      Terrorism and insurgency

      ByGERAINT HUGHES

      chapter 26|14 pages

      Suicide terrorism

      BySUSANNE MARTIN

      chapter 27|17 pages

      Counter-terrorism and conspiracy: historicizing the struggle against terrorism

      ByBEATRICE DE GRAAF

      chapter 28|14 pages

      Media and terrorism

      ByROBERT A. SAUNDERS

      chapter 29|14 pages

      Terrorism and technology

      ByANN LARABEE

      chapter 30|14 pages

      International terrorism

      ByGERAINT HUGHES

      chapter 31|15 pages

      The age of terrorism in the age of literature LYNN PATYK

      part |2 pages

      Part VI The historiography of terrorism

      chapter 32|14 pages

      The literary turn in terrorism studies

      ByRICHARD JACKSON
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