The foundations of modern terrorism : state, society and the dynamics of political violence / Martin A. Miller.
"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 mome...
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2013.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.