In the Name of God and Country: Reconsidering Terrorism in American History - Couverture souple

Fellman, Michael

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ISBN 10 : 0300168020 ISBN 13 : 9780300168020

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2010

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

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. Fellmans compelling narrative focuses on five key episodes: John Browns 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 18991902. In an epilogue, he applies this history to illuminate the Bush-Cheney administrations 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.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Michael Fellman is professor of history emeritus at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia. Among other books, he is author of Inside War:  The Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri During the American Civil War, Citizen Sherman:  A Life of William T. Sherman, and The Making of Robert E. Lee, and co-author of This Terrible War:  The Civil War and Its Aftermath.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0300168020
• ISBN 13: 9780300168020
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288