TY - BOOK ID - 71472989 TI - The foundations of modern terrorism PY - 2012 SN - 9781107621084 9781139178006 9781107025301 9781139625609 1139625608 1139178008 1283899469 9781283899468 1107025303 1107621089 1139610724 1107236347 1139612581 1107254647 1139616307 1139621882 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Terrorism. KW - Acts of terrorism KW - Attacks, Terrorist KW - Global terrorism KW - International terrorism KW - Political terrorism KW - Terror attacks KW - Terrorist acts KW - Terrorist attacks KW - World terrorism KW - Direct action KW - Insurgency KW - Political crimes and offenses KW - Subversive activities KW - Political violence KW - Terror KW - Arts and Humanities KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:71472989 AB - "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 moment as it was then that ordinary citizens first claimed the right to govern. The traditional notion of state legitimacy was forever altered and terrorism became part of a violent contest over control of state power between officials in government and insurgents in society. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries terrorism evolved into a way of seeing the world and a way of life for both insurgents and state security forces with the two sides drawn ever closer in their behaviour and tactics. This is a groundbreaking history of terrorism which, for the first time, integrates the violence of governments and insurgencies"-- ER -