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The Invention of Terrorism in Europe, Russia, and the United States (Paperback)
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The Invention of Terrorism in Europe, Russia, and the United States (Paperback)
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This book examines key cases of terrorist violence to show that the
invention of terrorism was linked to the birth of modernity in
Europe, Russia and the United States, rather than to Tsarist
despotism in 19th century Russia or to Islam sects in Medieval
Persia. Combining a highly readable historical narrative with
analysis of larger issues in social and political history, the
author argues that the dissemination of news about terrorist
violence was at the core of a strategy that aimed for political
impact on rulers as well as the general public. Dietze's lucid
account also reveals how the spread of knowledge about terrorist
acts was, from the outset, a transatlantic process. Two incidents
form the book's centerpiece. The first is the failed attempt to
assassinate French Emperor Napoleon III by Felice Orsini in 1858,
in an act intended to achieve Italian unity and democracy. The
second case study offers a new reading of John Brown's raid on the
arsenal at Harpers Ferry in 1859, as a decisive moment in the
abolitionist struggle and occurrences leading to the American Civil
War. Three further examples from Germany, Russia, and the US are
scrutinized to trace the development of the tactic by first
imitators. With their acts of violence, the "invention" of
terrorism was completed. Terrorism has existed as a tactic since
then and has essentially only been adapted through the use of new
technologies and methods.
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