Foundations of Modern Terrorism - State, Society and the Dynamics of Political Violence

Informationen zum Autor Martin Miller is Professor in the Department of History and the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at Duke University, North Carolina. A specialist in Russian revolutionary movements, his earlier books include Freud and the Bolsheviks (1998) and The Russian Revolution (2001). Klappentext A groundbreaking history of the roots of modern terrorism, ranging from early modern Europe to the contemporary Middle East. Zusammenfassung Ranging from early modern Europe to the contemporary Middle East! this is a groundbreaking history of the roots of modern terrorism. Martin Miller integrates the violence of governments and insurgencies for the first time! revealing how closely they are linked in their behaviour and tactics. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Writing the history of terrorism; 2. The origins of political violence in the pre-modern era; 3. Trajectories of terrorism in the transition to modernity; 4. Nineteenth-century Russian revolutionary and tsarist terrorisms; 5. European nation-state terrorism and its antagonists, at home and abroad, 1848-1914; 6. Terrorism in a democracy: the United States; 7. Communist and Fascist authoritarian terror; 8. Global ideological terror during the Cold War; 9. Toward the present: terrorism in theory and practice.

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• Authors: Martin A. Miller, Martin A. (Duke University Miller, MILLER MARTIN A, Miller Martin A.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.11.2012
• EAN: 9781107025301
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02530-1
• No. of pages: 306
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, History of Ideas, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, c 1500 onwards to present day, Terrorism, armed struggle, Comparative Politics, History and Archaeology, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance