The Routledge History of Terrorism

ISBN-13: 9780367867058 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 528 str.

Randall D. Law

Opis

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 t

Spis treści

Acknowledgements. Notes on contributors.  1. Introduction Randall D. Law  Section I: State Terror, Tyrannicide, and Terrorism in the Pre-Modern World  2. Tyrannicide from Ancient Greece and Rome to the Crisis of the Seventeenth Century Johannes Dillinger  3. Pre-modern Terrorism: The Cases of the Sicarii and the Assassins Donathan Taylor and Yannick Gautron  4. Terrorism in the Middle Ages: The Seeds of Later Developments Steven Isaac  Section II: The Emergence of Modern Terrorism  5. The French Revolution and Early European Revolutionary Terrorism Mike Rapport  6. Terrorism in America from the Colonial Period to John Brown Matthew Jennings  7. Entangled Terrorisms in Late Imperial Russia Martin Miller  8. Anarchist Terrorism and Counterterrorism in Europe and the World, 1878-1934 Richard Bach Jensen  9. Anarchist Terrorism in the United States Thai Jones  10. American Racial Terrorism from Civil War to Civil Rights Blake Gilpin  Section III: Terrorism in the Twentieth Century  11. State Terrorism in Early Twentieth-Century Europe Paul Hagenloh  12. Britain’s Small Wars: The Challenge to Empire, 1881-1951 Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon  13. Britain’s Small Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, 1952-1968 Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon  14. The Northern Irish Troubles – Cillian McGrattan  15. Terror, Counter-Terror and Compliance: the Escalation of Violence in the Algerian War of Independence Martin C. Thomas  16. Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization Boaz Ganor  17. The Roots of Islamism and Islamist Violence John Calvert  18. Islamist Terrorism from the Muslim Brotherhood to Hamas David Cook  19. The Urban Guerrilla, Terrorism, and State Terror

O autorze

Randall D. Law is Associate Professor of History at Birmingham-Southern College in Birmingham, Alabama, where he teaches courses on Russia, Modern Europe, and terrorism. He is the author of Terrorism: A History (2009) and is frequently interviewed by national and international reporters on matters related to terrorism and Russian politics. His current research is on terrorism, violence, and criminality in the city of Odessa in the Russian Empire in the early twentieth century.