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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
List of contents
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
About the author
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.
Summary
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
