A Genealogy of Terrorism
Colonial Law and the Origins of an Idea
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication: 12 November 2020
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ISBN13: | 9781108842150 |
ISBN10: | 1108842151 |
Binding: | Hardback |
No. of pages: | 300 pages |
Size: | 240x160x23 mm |
Weight: | 600 g |
Language: | English |
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Short description:
Explores how the modern concept of terrorism was shaped by colonial emergency laws dating back into the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Long description:
Using India as a case study, Joseph McQuade demonstrates how the modern concept of terrorism was shaped by colonial emergency laws dating back into the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Beginning with the 'thugs', 'pirates', and 'fanatics' of the nineteenth century, McQuade traces the emerging and novel legal category of 'the terrorist' in early twentieth-century colonial law, ending with an examination of the first international law to target global terrorism in the 1930s. Drawing on a wide range of archival research and a detailed empirical study of evolving emergency laws in British India, he argues that the idea of terrorism emerged as a deliberate strategy by officials seeking to depoliticize the actions of anti-colonial revolutionaries, and that many of the ideas embedded in this colonial legislation continue to shape contemporary understandings of terrorism today.
'A brilliant deconstruction of the colonial prose of counter-terrorism and its post-colonial legacy, McQuade's book provides new insights into how legal states of exception were crafted to delegitimize revolutionary violence. A must read for anyone wishing to understand the true nature of British 'rule of law' in India and its global ramifications.' Sugata Bose, Harvard University, Massachusetts
'A brilliant deconstruction of the colonial prose of counter-terrorism and its post-colonial legacy, McQuade's book provides new insights into how legal states of exception were crafted to delegitimize revolutionary violence. A must read for anyone wishing to understand the true nature of British 'rule of law' in India and its global ramifications.' Sugata Bose, Harvard University, Massachusetts
Table of Contents:
Introduction. The colonial prose of counterterrorism; 1. Ethereal assassins: colonial law and 'hereditary crime' in the nineteenth century; 2. 'The magical lore of Bengal': surveillance, swadeshi, and propaganda by bomb, 1890s to 1913; 3. 'The eye of government is on them': anti
-colonialism and emergency during the First World War; 4. Indefinite emergency: revolutionary politics and 'terrorism' in interwar India; 5. Terrorism as a 'world crime': the British Empire, international law, and the invention of global terrorism; Conclusion. Empire, law, and terrorism in the twenty
-first century.
-colonialism and emergency during the First World War; 4. Indefinite emergency: revolutionary politics and 'terrorism' in interwar India; 5. Terrorism as a 'world crime': the British Empire, international law, and the invention of global terrorism; Conclusion. Empire, law, and terrorism in the twenty
-first century.