Introduction / Randall D. Law -- Part I: State terror, tyrannicide, and terrorism in the pre-modern world; Tryannicide from Ancient Greece and Rome to the crisis of the seventeenth century / Johannes Dillinger -- Pre-modern terrorism: the cases of the Sicarii and the Assassins / Donathan Taylor and Yannick Gautron -- Terrorism in the Middle Ages: the seeds of later developments / Steven Isaac -- The emergence of modern terrorism; The French Revolution and early european revolutionary terrorism / Mike Rapport -- Terrorism in America from the colonial period to John Brown / Matthew Jennings -- Estangled terrorism in late Imperial Russia / Martin A. Miller -- Anarchist terrorism and counter-terrorism in Europ and the world, 1878-1934 / Richard Bach Jensen -- Anarchist terrorism in the United States / Thai Jones -- American racial terrorism from Brown to Booth to Birmingham / Blakeslee Gilpin -- Terrorism in the twentieth century; State terrorism in early twentieth-century Europe / Paul M. Hagenloh -- Britain’s small wars: the challenge to Empire, 1881-1951 / Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon -- Britain’s small wars: the Emopire strikes back, 1952-68 / Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon -- The Northern Irish Troubles / Cillian McGrattan -- Violence in the Algerian War of Independence: terror, counter-terror, and compliance / Martin C. Thomas -- Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization / Boaz Ganor -- The roots of Islamism and Islamist violence / John Calvert -- Islamist terrorism from the Muslim Brotherhood to Hamas / David Cook -- The urban guerrilla, terrorism, and state terror in Latin America / Jennifer S. Holmes -- Militant organizations in Western Europe in 1970s and 1980s / Gabbi Balz -- Recent decades; Contemporary domestic terrorism in the United States / Carolyn Gallaher -- The genesis, rise, and uncertain futur of al-Qaeda / Daveed Gartenstein-Ross -- Politics, religion, and the making of terrorism in Pakistan and India / Eamon Murphy -- Critical themes in the history of terrorism; Modernity and terrorism / Roger Griffin -- Terrorism and insurgency / Geraint Hughes -- Suidcide terrorism / Susanne Martin -- Counter-terrorism and conspiracy: historicizing the struggle against terrorism / Beatrice DeGraaf -- Media and terrorism / Robert A. Saunders -- Terrorism and technology / Ann Larabee -- International terrorism / Geraint Hughes -- The age of terrorism in the age of literature / Lynn Patyk -- The historigraphy of terrorism; The literary turn in terrorism studies / Richard Jackson.