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The foundations of modern terrorism

Miller, Martin A. (Martin Alan) 1938- (author.).

Summary: "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"--

Record details

ISBN: 9781283899468
ISBN: 1283899469
ISBN: 1139178008
ISBN: 9781139178006
ISBN: 1139625608
ISBN: 9781139625609
Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-284) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	1. Writing the history of terrorism -- 2. Religious terror and nation-state formation -- 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, 1848-1914 -- 6. Terrorism in a democracy: the US -- 7. Communist and Fascist authoritarian terror -- 8. Global ideological terrorism during the Cold War -- 9. Toward the present: terrorism in theory and practice.
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.