Terror and History

A special issue of Radical History (Issue 85)

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Edited by Van Gosse

Duke University Press

Due/Published February 2003, 300 pages, paper

ISBN 0822365588

A special issue of Radical History

Terror and History brings together historians and leading scholars from around the world to examine, document, and reflect on the political and historical category of terror. Breaking with the traditional format of academic journals, the issue delivers short, sharp pieces of political and personal analysis rather than footnoted, monographic articles. Ranging from Guatemala to Palestine, interrogating notions of homeland and unpacking the myths of the Irish Republican Army, the Red Army Faction, and Sendero Luminoso, the contributors to Terror and History revise our notions of terror and terrorism. The issue also includes a critique of the newer war movies like Saving Private Ryan, Pearl Harbor, and Blackhawk Down. In an interview, Mike Davis discusses his book-in-progress Heroes from Hell, delving into the revolutionary terror that gripped most of Europe after the French Revolution.

Contributors: Joel Beinin, Lisa Brock, Horace Campbell, Duane J. Corpis, Belinda Davis, Mike Davis, Allen Feldman, Ian Christopher Fletcher, Van Gosse, Joy James, J. Angus Johnston, Amy Kaplan, Thomas Miller Klubock, R. J. Lambrose, Jesse Lemisch, Deborah Levenson-Estrada, Walter Benn Michaels, Donnacha î Beacháin, Deborah Poole, Vijay Prashad, David Prochaska, Gerardo Rénique, Cedric Robinson, Nikhil Pal Singh, Stephanie J. Smith, Akinyele Umoja, Jon Wiener, Ver—nica Valdivia Ortize de Z‡rate, Marilyn B. Young, Joseba Zulaika