TY - BOOK ID - 78070210 TI - In the name of God and country PY - 2010 SN - 1282352032 9786612352034 0300155018 9780300155013 0300115105 9780300115109 9780300115109 9781282352032 6612352035 9780300168020 0300168020 PB - New Haven Yale University Press DB - UniCat KW - Terrorism KW - Subversive activities KW - Fifth column KW - Security offenses KW - Unconventional warfare KW - Insurgency KW - Sovereignty, Violation of KW - Internal security KW - Political crimes and offenses 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 - Political violence KW - Terror KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78070210 AB - With insight and originality, Michael Fellman argues that terrorism, in various forms, has been a constant and driving force in American history. In part, this is due to the nature of American republicanism and Protestant Christianity, which he believes contain a core of moral absolutism and self-righteousness that perpetrators of terrorism use to justify their actions. Fellman also argues that there is an intrinsic relationship between terrorist acts by non-state groups and responses on the part of the state; unlike many observers, he believes that both the action and the reaction constitute terrorism.Fellman's compelling narrative focuses on five key episodes: John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry; terrorism during the American Civil War, especially race warfare and guerrilla warfare; the organized "White Line" paramilitary destruction of Reconstruction in Mississippi; the Haymarket Affair and its aftermath; and the Philippine-American war of 1899-1902. In an epilogue, he applies this history to illuminate the Bush-Cheney administration's use of terrorism in the so-called war on terror. In the Name of God and Country demonstrates the centrality of terrorism in shaping America even to this day. ER -