TY - BOOK AU - Wrightson,Graham TI - Terrorism through the Ages T2 - Brill's Specials in Modern History SN - 9789004548466 AV - HV6431 U1 - 303.6/25 23 PY - 2023/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Terrorism KW - History KW - Political aspects N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: The Legacy of 9/11 as a Window to Examine Terrorism through the Ages -- Graham Wrightson -- PART 1: 9/11 as a Window to Greece and Rome -- 1 Eternal Enmity between East and West: The Mechanics of Retribution in Herodotus’ Historical Causation and the 21st-Century War on Terror -- Jaime A. González-Ocaña -- 2 A Rhetoric of Terrorism; A Rhetoric of Piracy: Comparing Roman and Post-9/11 Designations of Terrorist -- Aaron L. Beek -- PART 2: Pre-modern Conceptualization and Examples of Terrorism -- 3 Tyrants and Terror: Violence and Fear in the Literary Accounts of the Athenian Civil Wars -- Francesco Mori -- 4 Mucius Scaevola: An Ancient Roman Terrorist -- Gaius Stern -- 5 State Terrorism in the Late Roman Republic -- Timothy Smith -- 6 The Manifold Impact of Chevauchées as Policies of Terror (c.1350–1400) -- João Nisa and Ölbei Tamás -- PART 3: Case-Studies of Modern Terrorism -- Section 1: 1850–1945 -- 7 The Original “Spectacular”? The Intentions and Impacts of the 1858 Orsini Bombing -- James Crossland -- 8 Before There Was September 11th, 2001: The Military Response to Non-State Actors -- Paul J. Cook -- 9 Mad or Bad? Paul Gorguloff, the Man Who Killed the French President in 1932 -- Chris Millington -- Section 2: 1945–2021 -- 10 Who Owns Terrorism in Democracy? State Terrorism and Violence in India, 1966–1984 -- Vineeth Mathoor -- 11 ”Jihadization” of Islamic Resistance: The Pattern of Great Revolutions from Nationalist Movements to Radicalism - A Case Study of Chechnya and Its Implications for Terrorist Activity -- Dmitry Shlapentokh -- 12 ISIS Propaganda and Local Triggers as Drivers of Islamic Radicalisation: A Sociological Analysis of Easter Sunday Attacks in Sri Lanka -- Kalinga Tudor Silva -- PART 4: Islamic Ideals after 9/11 -- ???? ??? 13 ?- In the Name of God? An Empirical Research about Figurations of the Islamic State in Selected Youtube©-Videos -- Michael Cserkits -- 14 Guides for the “Fight in the Cause of Allah”: The Inspire and Dabiq Magazines and Their Roles in the Disclosure of Jihad -- Katty Cristina Lima Sá -- PART 5: The Aesthetics of Terror Acts and Acts against Memory -- 15 The Body at War: Reimagining the Irish Troubles through the Post-9/11 Aesthetics of Torture in Steve McQueen’s Hunger -- Tatiana Konrad -- 16 “Bringing a Pitiful Giant to His Knees”: Blowing up Monuments as Subversive Political Violence, 1840–1970 -- Daniel Leach -- PART 6: The Rhetorics and Policies of Terror -- 17 War of the Words: Shultz, Weinberger, and the Rhetoric of Retaliation against Cold War Era Terrorism -- Paul Cook -- 18 How to Understand an Enigmatic Ally: The Pakistan Army, Strategic Culture, and Its Conflicted Relationship with Terrorism -- Mark Briskey -- 19 Terrorist Extradition through the Ages -- Silke Zoller -- 20 The Rhetorics of Terror: Osama Bin Laden, George W. Bush, and Rethinking the 9/11 Attacks -- Elizabeth L. Miller and William V. Hudon -- Conclusion: 9/11 and the History of Terrorism as a Window into the Future and the Past -- Graham Wrightson -- Index N2 - What connects political violence in Classical Athens and state terrorism in the Roman republic to the Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka and the modern destruction of monuments? Using 9/11 as a lens through which to examine past instances of terrorism, this book presents a wide global view of the use of terror and its impact throughout history. Contributors are: Jaime A. González-Ocaña, Aaron L. Beek, Francesco Mori, Gaius Stern, Timothy Smith, João Nisa, Ölbei Tamás, James Crossland, Paul Cook, Chris Millington, Vineeth Mathoor, Dmitry Shlapentokh, Kalinga Tudor Silva, Cserkits Michael, Katty Cristina Lima Sá, Tatiana Konrad, Daniel Leach, Paul J. Cook, Mark Briskey, Silke Zoller, Elizabeth L. Miller, and William V. Hudon UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004548466 ER -