Enemies of Humanity The Nineteenth-Century War on Terrorism [Paperback]

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.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

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 dextl“.