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This is the first global history of the secret diplomatic and police campaign that was waged against anarchist terrorism from 1878 to the 1920s. Anarchist terrorism was at that time the dominant form of terrorism and for many continued to be synonymous with terrorism as late as the 1930s. Ranging from Europe and the Americas to the Middle East and Asia, the book explores how anarchist terrorism emerged as a global phenomenon during the first great era of economic and social globalization at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries and reveals why some nations were so much more successful in combating this new threat than others. Jensen shows how the challenge of dealing with this new form of terrorism led to the fundamental modernization of policing in many countries and also discusses its impact on criminology and international law.
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This is the first global history of the secret diplomatic and police campaign that was waged against anarchist terrorism from 1878 to the 1920s. Anarchist terrorism was at that time the dominant form of terrorism and for many continued to be synonymous with terrorism as late as the 1930s. The book reveals why some nations were so much more successful in combating this new threat than others. Jensen shows how the challenge of dealing with this new form of terrorism led to the fundamental modernization of policing in many countries and also discusses its impact on criminology and international law.
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Reading Barbara Tuchman's The Proud Tower in the 1970s, I was intrigued by her brief mention of the International Anti-Anarchist Conference of Rome. Little was known about this highly secret diplomatic conference whose minutes had allegedly been burned in December 1898 to preserve its secrecy. It became my obsession to find these minutes as well as more about an event that had been omitted from historical accounts. In 1981, I published the first scholarly article on the conference and subsequently began the research that led to the present work.
Professor Richard Bach Jensen
Northwestern State University
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This page is a summary of: The Battle against Anarchist Terrorism: An International History, 1878-1934. By Richard Bach Jensen. Cambridge University Press. 2014. xviii + 410pp. £65.00., History, March 2016, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/1468-229x.12223.
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