The Invention of Terrorism in France, 1904-1939 investigates the
political and social imaginaries of "terrorism" in the early
twentieth century. Chris Millington traces the development of how
the French conceived of terrorism, from the late nineteenth-century
notion that terrorism was the deed of the mad anarchist bomber, to
the fraught political clashes of the 1930s when terrorism came to
be understood as a political act perpetrated against French
interests by organized international movements. Through a close
analysis of a series of terrorist incidents and representations
thereof in public discourse and the press, the book argues that
contemporary ideas of terrorism in France as "unFrench"—that is,
contrary to the ideas and values, however defined, that make up
"Frenchness"—emerged in the interwar years and subsequently took
root long before the terrorist campaigns of Algerian nationalists
during the 1950s and 1960s. Millington conceptualizes "terrorism"
not only as the act itself, but also as a political and cultural
construction of violence composed from a variety of discourses and
deployed in particular circumstances by commentators, witnesses,
and perpetrators. In doing so, he argues that the political and
cultural battles inherent to perceptions of terrorism lay bare
numerous concerns, not least anxieties over immigration,
antiparliamentarianism, representations of gender, and the future
of European peace.
General
| Imprint: |
Stanford University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
September 2023 |
| First published: |
2023 |
| Authors: |
Chris Millington
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
304 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-5036-3675-0 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
1-5036-3675-5 |
| Barcode: |
9781503636750 |
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