Foundations of Modern Terrorism State, Society and the Dynamics of Political Violence

Name: Foundations of Modern Terrorism State, Society and the Dynamics of Political Violence
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ISBN: 9781107621084

ISBN-10: 1107621089

ISBN-13: 9781107621084

Edition: 2012

Authors: Martin A. Miller

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"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…

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List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/29/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 306
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English




Writing the history of terrorism



Religious terror and nation-state formation



Trajectories of terrorism in the transition to modernity



Nineteenth-century Russian revolutionary and Tsarist terrorisms



European nation-state terrorism and its antagonists, 1848-1914



Terrorism in a democracy: the US



Communist and Fascist authoritarian terror



Global ideological terrorism during the Cold War



Toward the present: terrorism in theory and practice