Enemies of Humanity

1. Introduction
Isaac Land

Part I. Fearing the Crowd: Revolution and Atrocity

2. Feel the Terror: Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France

Peter C. Messer

3. “Unworthy of Liberty?” Slavery, Terror, and Revolution in Haiti
Laurent Dubois

4. Vindictive Ferocity: Virginia’s Response to the Nat Turner Rebellion
Bryan Rommel-Ruiz

Part II. Keeping the Peace: A War without an Ending

5. 1867 All Over Again? Insurgency and Terrorism in a Liberal State
Brian Jenkins

6. The Making of Russian Revolutionary Terrorism
Claudia Verhoeven

7. Men with the Faces of Brutes: Physiognomy, Urban Anxieties, and Police States
Isaac Land

Part III. Waging Total War: The Logic of Retribution

8. Vast and Cool and Unsympathetic: From The Descent of Man to “The Empire of the Ants”
Matthew Candelaria

9. The Savage Wars of Peace: Wars against Terrorism in Nineteenth-Century Ireland and India
G. K. Peatling

10. Half Devil and Half Child: America’s War with Terror in the Philippines, 1899–1902
John Coats

11. The War against Terrorism in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russia
Hugh Phillips

Keywords: History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Imperialism and Colonialism, History of Military, Modern History, Criminology & Criminal Justice, Terrorism and Political Violence