Terrorism : a history
By: Law, Randall D
Material type: BookPublisher: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, c2016.Description: XIV, 386 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780745690902Subject(s): Terrorism -- History | TerrorismDDC classification: 363.32509 Online resources: Location MapItem type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 363.32509 LA TE (Browse shelf) | Available | T0055161 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Abbreviations Chronology Introduction 1 Terror and Tyrannicide in the Ancient World 2 Terror and Tyrannicide in the Middle Ages 3 Terror and Tyrannicide in the Early Modern Era in Europe 4 The Dawn of Revolutionary Terrorism 5 Russian Revolutionary Terrorism 6 The Era of the European Attentat 7 Labor, Anarchy, and Terror in America 8 White Supremacy and American Racial Terrorism 9 The Dawn of Ethno-Nationalist Terrorism 10 The Era of State Terror 11 Decolonization and Ethno-Nationalist Terrorism from the 1930s to the Early 1960s 12 Decolonization and Ethno-Nationalist Terrorism from the Late 1960s to the Present 13 The Era of Leftist and International Terrorism 14 The Rise of Jihadist Terrorism 15 Recent Non-Jihadist Terrorism 16 9/11, the War on Terror, and Recent Trends in Terrorism Notes Index
We live in an era dominated by terrorism but struggle to understand its meaning and the real nature of the threat.