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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Terrorism (Hardcover)
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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Terrorism (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Handbooks
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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Terrorism presents a
revaluation of the major narratives in the history of terrorism,
exploring the emergence and the use of terrorism in world history
from antiquity up to the twenty-first century. The essays collected
in this handbook constitute the first systematic analysis of the
relationship between terrorism and modernity on a global scale from
the French Revolution to the present. Historians and political
theorists have long asserted such a link, but this causal
connection has rarely been rigorously investigated, and the failure
to examine such a crucial aspect of terrorism has contributed to
the spread of unsubstantiated claims about its nature and origins.
Terrorism is often presented as a perennial barbarism forever
lurking outside of civilization when, in fact, it is a historically
specific form of political violence generated by modern Western
culture that was then transported around the globe, where it was
transformed in accordance with local conditions. This handbook
offers cogent arguments and well-documented case studies that
support a reading of terrorism as an explicitly modern phenomenon.
It also provides sustained analyses of the challenges involved in
the application of the theories and practices of modernity and
terrorism to non-Western parts of the world. The volume presents an
overview of terrorism's antecedents in the pre-modern world,
analyzes the emergence of terrorism in the West, and presents a
series of case studies from non-Western parts of the world that
together constitute terrorism's global reception history. Essays
cover a broad range of topics from tyrannicide in ancient Greek
political culture, the radical resistance movement against Roman
rule in Judea, the invention of terrorism in Europe, Russia, and
the United States, anarchist networks in France, Argentina, and
China, imperial terror in Colonial Kenya, anti-colonial violence in
India, Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, and the German Autumn, to
right-wing, eco-and religious terrorism, as well as terrorism's
entanglements with science, technology, media, literature and art.
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Terrorism ultimately provides
an account of the global history of terrorism and coverage of the
most important cases from this history, always presented with an
eye towards their entanglement with the forces and technologies of
modernity.
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