Enemies of Humanity: The Nineteenth-Century War on Terrorism by I. Land (English

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This collection of essays offers a fresh perspective on the definition and origins of terrorism, broadening the field to include slave revolts and urban tensions, and considering how the "war on terrorism" had already matured by 1870 as a way to justify often bloody campaigns against labor unions, nationalist freedom fighters, and reformers.

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This collection of essays offers a fresh perspective on the definition and origins of terrorism, broadening the field to include slave revolts and urban tensions, and considering how the "war on terrorism" had already matured by 1870 as a way to justify often bloody campaigns against labor unions, nationalist freedom fighters, and reformers.

Author Biography

Isaac Land is an Assistant Professor of History at Indiana State University.

Table of Contents

PART 1: FEARING THE CROWD: REVOLUTION AND ATROCITY * Feel the Terror: Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France / Peter C. Messer * Unworthy of Liberty?: Slavery, Terror, and Revolution in Haiti / Laurent Dubois * Vindictive Ferocity: Virginia's Response to the Nat Turner Rebellion / Bryan Rommel-Ruiz * PART 2: KEEPING THE PEACE: A WAR WITHOUT AN ENDING * 1867 All Over Again?: Insurgency and Terrorism in a Liberal State / Brian Jenkins * The Making of Russian Revolutionary Terrorism / Claudia Verhoeven * Men with the Faces of Brutes: Physiognomy, Urban Anxieties, and Police States / Isaac Land * PART 3: WAGING TOTAL WAR: THE LOGIC OF RETRIBUTION * Vast and Cool and Unsympathetic: From The Descent of Man to "The Empire of the Ants" / Matthew Candelaria * The Savage Wars of Peace: Wars Against Terrorism in Nineteenth-Century Ireland and India / G.K. Peatling * Half Devil and Half Child: America's War with Terror in the Philippines, 1899-1902 / John Coats * The War against Terrorism in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russia / Hugh Phillips

Review

"This collection provides a thought-provoking counterpoint to studies focusing on traditional non-state terrorists." - P.C. Kennedy, Choice"Anyone familiar with terrorist rhetoric that has developed in various parts of the world over the past century is no longer astonished by widespread practices aimed at dehumanization of the enemy. Islamist extremists today have repeatedly portrayed political adversaries as sub-human brutes and likened them to predators or vermin - as did their predecessors among the Russian terrorists a hundred years earlier. With uncommon intellectual dexterity, Enemies of Humanity reverses the picture to announce that in their anti-terrorist campaigns state governments have been dehumanizing the enemy in the very same way.Wars declared on political extremism are not reactive, discover several insightful experts on terrorism, whose articles expound on the volume s underlying theme:intent on extermination, 'it is nihilist governments, not nihilist individuals or small conspiracies, that may ultimately pose the gravest threat to life and liberty.' Who are then the 'enemies of the human race'? To be a fair judge, the reader needs no special expertise but a strong sense of reality." - Anna Geifman, Professor of History, Boston University"Probing the twisted dependence between those who commit shocking acts of antiestablishment violence and the powerful who brand them 'terrorists,' thereby exiling the terrorist from humanity while freeing themselves from the bounds of law, these essays reveal not only why an allegorical 'war on terror' will not soon end but how it has carried on under various guises for over two hundred years." - Timothy Messer-Kruse, Professor of Ethnic Studies, Bowling Green State University

Long Description

This collection of essays offers a fresh perspective on the definition and origins of terrorism, broadening the field to include slave revolts and urban tensions, and considering how the "war on terrorism" had already matured by 1870 as a way to justify often bloody campaigns against labor unions, nationalist freedom fighters, and reformers.

Review Quote

"This collection provides a thought-provoking counterpoint to studies focusing on traditional non-state terrorists."--P.C. Kennedy, "Choice""""Anyone familiar with terrorist rhetoric that has developed in various parts of the world over the past century is no longer astonished by widespread practices aimed at dehumanization of the enemy. Islamist extremists today have repeatedly portrayed political adversaries as sub-human brutes and likened them to predators or vermin--as did their predecessors among the Russian terrorists a hundred years earlier. With uncommon intellectual dexterity, "Enemies of Humanity" reverses the picture to announce that in their anti-terrorist campaigns state governments have been dehumanizing the enemy in the very same way.Wars declared on political extremism are not reactive, discover several insightful experts on terrorism, whose articles expound on the volume s underlying theme: intent on extermination, 'it is nihilist governments, not nihilist individuals or small conspiracies, that may ultimately pose the gravest threat to life and liberty.' Who are then the 'enemies of the human race'? To be a fair judge, the reader needs no special expertise but a strong sense of reality."--Anna Geifman, Professor of History, Boston University"Probing the twisted dependence between those who commit shocking acts of antiestablishment violence and the powerful who brand them 'terrorists, ' thereby exiling the terrorist from humanity while freeing themselves from the bounds of law, these essays reveal not only why an allegorical 'war on terror' will not soon end but how it has carried on under various guises for over two hundred years."--Timothy Messer-Kruse, Professor of Ethnic Studies, Bowling Green State University"

Details ISBN1349372315 Language English ISBN-10 1349372315 ISBN-13 9781349372317 Format Paperback Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Short Title ENEMIES OF HUMANITY 2008/E Media Book Edition 1st Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Subtitle The Nineteenth-Century War on Terrorism Place of Publication Basingstoke Country of Publication United Kingdom Pages 246 Year 2015 Publication Date 2015-10-21 UK Release Date 2015-10-21 AU Release Date 2015-10-21 NZ Release Date 2015-10-21 Illustrations VIII, 246 p. Author I. Land Edited by I. Land Birth 1946 Affiliation Freelance author, UK Position Distinguished Professor of American Studies and Literature Edition Description 1st ed. 2008 Alternative 9780230604599 DEWEY 363.32509034 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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