Martin A. Miller

The Foundations of Modern Terrorism

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Produktbeschreibung

Why is it that terrorism has become such a central factor in our lives despite all the efforts to eradicate it? Ranging from early modern Europe to the contemporary Middle East, Martin Miller reveals the foundations of modern terrorism. He argues that the French Revolution was a watershed moment as it was then that ordinary citizens first claimed the right to govern. The traditional notion of state legitimacy was forever altered and terrorism became part of a violent contest over control of state power between officials in government and insurgents in society. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries terrorism evolved into a way of seeing the world and a way of life for both insurgents and state security forces with the two sides drawn ever closer in their behaviour and tactics. This is a groundbreaking history of terrorism which, for the first time, integrates the violence of governments and insurgencies. Ranging from early modern Europe to the contemporary Middle East, this is a groundbreaking history of the roots of modern terrorism. Martin Miller integrates the violence of governments and insurgencies for the first time, revealing how closely they are linked in their behaviour and tactics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9781107621084
• ISBN-10: 1107621089
• Artikelnr.: 36275532

Autorenporträt

Martin Miller is Professor in the Department of History and the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at Duke University, North Carolina. A specialist in Russian revolutionary movements, his earlier books include Freud and the Bolsheviks (1998) and The Russian Revolution (2001).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Writing the history of terrorism; 2. The origins of political violence in the pre-modern era; 3. Trajectories of terrorism in the transition to modernity; 4. Nineteenth-century Russian revolutionary and tsarist terrorisms; 5. European nation-state terrorism and its antagonists, at home and abroad, 1848-1914; 6. Terrorism in a democracy: the United States; 7. Communist and Fascist authoritarian terror; 8. Global ideological terror during the Cold War; 9. Toward the present: terrorism in theory and practice.

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1. Writing the history of terrorism
2. The origins of political violence in the pre-modern era
3. Trajectories of terrorism in the transition to modernity
4. Nineteenth-century Russian revolutionary and tsarist terrorisms
5. European nation-state terrorism and its antagonists, at home and abroad, 1848-1914
6. Terrorism in a democracy: the United States
7. Communist and Fascist authoritarian terror
8. Global ideological terror during the Cold War
9. Toward the present: terrorism in theory and practice.

Rezensionen

'Miller has written a splendid scene-shifting narrative of dilemmas of power, with cameos of individual terrorists, theoreticians of terror, architects of state terror, and scenes of terror across the globe. His study offers deep understanding of the basic and enduring reasons for both Red and White Terror.' Philip Pomper, Wesleyan University