Joseph McQuade (University of Toronto)

A Genealogy of Terrorism

Colonial Law and the Origins of an Idea

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Produktbeschreibung

Using India as a case study, Joseph McQuade traces the genealogy of the political and legal category of terrorism. He demonstrates how the modern concept of terrorism was shaped by colonial emergency laws dating back into the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 430g
• ISBN-13: 9781108816328
• ISBN-10: 1108816320
• Artikelnr.: 64223847

Autorenporträt

Joseph McQuade is the RCL Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto's Asian Institute.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. The colonial prose of counterterrorism; 1. Ethereal
assassins: colonial law and 'hereditary crime' in the nineteenth century;
2. 'The magical lore of Bengal': surveillance, swadeshi, and propaganda by
bomb, 1890s to 1913; 3. 'The eye of government is on them':
anti-colonialism and emergency during the First World War; 4. Indefinite
emergency: revolutionary politics and 'terrorism' in interwar India; 5.
Terrorism as a 'world crime': the British Empire, international law, and
the invention of global terrorism; Conclusion. Empire, law, and terrorism
in the twenty-first century.