Terrorism: A History (Themes in History)
Language: English
Pages: 378
ISBN: 0745690890
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
We live in an era dominated by terrorism but struggle to understand its meaning and the real nature of the threat. In this new edition of his widely acclaimed survey of the topic, Randall Law makes sense of the history of terrorism by examining it within its broad political, religious and social contexts and tracing its development from the ancient world to the 21st century. In Terrorism: A History, Law reveals how the very definition of the word has changed, how the tactics and strategies of terrorism have evolved, and how those who have used it adapted to revolutions in technology, communications, and political ideologies.
Terrorism: A History extensively covers such topics as jihadist violence, state terror, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, Northern Ireland, anarcho-terrorism, and the Ku Klux Klan, plus lesser known movements in Uruguay and Algeria, as well as the pre-modern uses of terror in ancient Rome, medieval Europe, and the French Revolution.
This thoroughly revised edition features up-to-date analysis of:
· Al-Qaeda’s affiliates and the “franchising” of jihadism
· “Lone wolf” violence in the United States and Europe
· Sri Lanka’s victory over the Tamil Tigers
Other features include updated and expanded bibliographies in each chapter, more scholarly citations, and a new conclusion, making Terrorism: A History the go-to book for those wishing to understand the real nature and importance of this ubiquitous phenomenon.
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begins publishing Die Freiheit (Freedom) Assassination of Alexander II by the People’s Will Phoenix Park murders committed by Irish National Invincibles Haymarket Riot Bombings by François-Claudins Ravachol, Emile Henry, and Auguste Vaillant Bombing of Barcelona’s opera house by Santiago Salvador French Assassination of US President William McKinley by Leon Czolgosz High-profile assassinations by Combat Organization of the Socialists-Revolutionaries Russian Revolution of 1905 Publication of The
assassinations from 1902 to 1905, including two ministers of internal affairs; the governor of Ufa province; several other police and government officials; and even the tsar’s own uncle, the Grand Duke Sergei Aleksandrovich, who was Moscow’s governor general. The targets were well chosen, for their deaths were not mourned, even by those from the political center and right. An English newspaper correspondent reported that one minister’s demise “was received with semi-public rejoicings. I met
Germany. Elsewhere in Europe, anarchist attacks likewise succeeded in causing few casualties, but attracted enormous attention because of the nature of the targets and the daring of the execution. A bomb was thrown in a Lyons music hall frequented by the bourgeoisie in 1882, and four years later a mentally unstable anarchist threw a container of hydrocyanic acid (an insecticide later used by the Nazis under the trademark Zyklon B) and fired several shots at traders on the floor of the Paris stock
its impact on distant audiences, not its military utility against its targets. And although the 1960s Brazilian revolutionary Carlos Marighella never carried out a significant Introduction 7 terrorist attack himself, he devised a widely emulated strategy of using provocative violence to build a revolutionary movement. In addition, since terrorism has long been used as an epithet to delegitimize groups, ideologies, motives, and forms of violence deemed deviant or dangerous by the dominant
Kremlin’s Greatest Mystery (Hill and Wang, 1999). There are many excellent books on the Great Terror. Two of the most valuable are Robert Conquest, The Great Terror: A Reassessment (Oxford University Press, 2007); and J. Arch Getty and Oleg V. Naumov, eds., The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932–1939 (Yale University Press, 1999). For an accessible and comprehensive history of the Soviet labor camps, see Anne Applebaum, Gulag: A History (Doubleday, 2003). On
