Description
Concise yet comprehensive, this one-volume reference examines the history of terrorism in the modern world, including its origins and development, and terrorist acts by groups and individuals from the French Revolution to today. Organized thematically and regionally, it outlines major developments in conflicts that involved terrorism, the history of terrorist groups, key aspects of counterterrorist policy, and specific terrorist incidents.Initial chapters explore terrorism as a social force, and analyze the use of terrorism as a political tool, both historically and in the contemporary world. Subsequent chapters focus on different parts of the world and consider terrorism as a part of larger disputes. Each chapter begins with a historical introduction and analysis of the topic or region, followed by one or more chronologies that trace events within political and social contexts. A glossary, selected bibliography, and detailed index are also included.
Table of Contents
Introduction; 1. Origins of Modern Terrorism; 2. The Early History of Terrorism as Ideology and Strategy; 3. Revolutionaries of Asia and Africa; 4. Social Revolutionary Terrorism in Europe and North America; 5. Western Nationalist Groups; 6. Social Revolutionary Terrorism in Latin America; 7. Terrorism in the Arab-Israeli Conflict; 8. Radical Islamist Terrorism; 9. Global Jihad, September 11, and Afterward; Glossary.
