Joseph McQuade

Genealogy of Terrorism (eBook, PDF)

Colonial Law and the Origins of an Idea

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores 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
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108902274
• Artikelnr.: 70910659

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.