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America's Use of Terror - From Colonial Times to the A-bomb (Hardcover)
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America's Use of Terror - From Colonial Times to the A-bomb (Hardcover)
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From the first, America has considered itself a "shining city on a
hill"-uniquely lighting the right way for the world. But it is hard
to reconcile this picture, the very image of American
exceptionalism, with what America's Use of Terror shows us: that
the United States has frequently resorted to acts of terror to
solve its most challenging problems. Any "war on terror," Stephen
Huggins suggests, will fail unless we take a long, hard look at
ourselves-and it is this discerning, informed perspective that his
book provides. Terrorism, as Huggins defines it, is an act of
violence against noncombatants intended to change their political
will or support. The United States government adds a qualifier to
this definition: only if the instigator is a "subnational group."
On the contrary, Huggins tells us, terrorism is indeed used by the
state-a politically organized body of people occupying a definite
territory-in this case, the government of the United States, as
well as by such predecessors as the Continental Congress and early
European colonists in America. In this light, America's Use of
Terror re-examines key historical moments and processes, many of
them events praised in American history but actually acts of terror
directed at noncombatants. The targeting of women and children in
Native American villages, for instance, was a use of terror, as
were the means used to sustain slavery and then to further
subjugate freed slaves under Jim Crow laws and practices. The
placing of Philippine peasants in concentration camps during the
Philippine-American War; the firebombing of families in Dresden and
Tokyo; the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki-all
are last resort Measures to conclude wars, and these too are among
the instances of American terrorism that Huggins explores.
Terrorism, in short, is not only terrorism when they do it to us,
as many Americans like to think. And only when we recognize this,
and thus the dissonance between the ideal and the real America,
will we be able to truly understand and confront modern terrorism.
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