We know what terrorism is. We know it when we see it. The closer one looks, though, the more confusing the meanings of terrorism can become. Can governments be terrorists? Was the Boston Tea Party an act of terrorism? Why or why not? This course traces the emergence of the concept of terrorism between the French Revolution and the 1970s. We will examine radical and reactionary politics, international law, totalitarianism and total war, imperialism and decolonization, and religious violence. Our goal is to reconstruct the story of how we came to think about terrorism in the ways that we do.
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