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France has a modern history of right-wing terrorism that dates back to the middle of the 20th century. Historically, right-wing terrorism was tied to rage over the loss of France's colonial possessions in Africa, particularly Algeria.
8 sty 2015 · Terrorist violence has a long history in France. The term ‘terrorism’ itself was coined in the wake of the 1789 revolution as a term to describe the government’s bloody campaign against counter-revolutionaries.
From what we do surmise so far, personal problems appear to be largely at the root of the violence—different from, but not entirely unlike, the case with the Orlando shooter, Omar Mateen. We need...
A common point of departure in the historical study of terrorism is a distinction between ancient or medieval political violence and its first contemporary manifestation during the French Revolution.
19 paź 2023 · While neither the UN nor the International Criminal Court can agree on a precise or universally accepted definition, the origins of 'terrorism' date back to the French Revolution, during the...
26 wrz 2023 · The Invention of Terrorism in France, 1904-1939 investigates the political and social imaginaries of "terrorism" in the early twentieth century. Chris Millington traces the development of how the French conceived of terrorism, from the late nineteenth-century notion that terrorism was the deed of the mad anarchist bomber, to the fraught ...
8 cze 2015 · Many accounts of terrorism locate the emergence of the concept in the French Revolution. Intellectual historians tend to regard the French Revolution as a point of rupture in the conceptual history...
