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Visiting Scholars Seminar: New Research on Europe

The Concept of Terrorism: A Modern History


November 7, 2018
12:15pm - 1:45pm
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
November 7, 2018
12:15pm - 1:45pm
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall

Today our thinking about terrorism remains inadequately historical and thus impoverished. Shaped by the intersecting forces of revolution, empire, law, and war, the concept of terrorism developed between the 1790s, when the word first abruptly appeared during the French Revolution, and the 1970s, when it achieved global currency for policymakers and in the media. Answering the question—How did we come to think about terrorism the way we do?—might help feed reflection on how we should think about it.

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