University of Pennsylvania Press
Prehistories of the War on Terror
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Reveals fundamental continuities between the contemporary War on Terror and earlier U.S. imperial conflicts
Prehistories of the War on Terror examines the longstanding American project of classifying enemies who challenge U.S. power abroad as terrorists. To do so, the volume brings disparate episodes of U.S. military empire-building into dialogue across time and space. From settler colonial wars in the nineteenth-century American West to twentieth-century wars of conquest in Asia and the Pacific, the collection’s essays argue that the United States has drawn both materially and ideologically on older systems of empire in the conflicts through which it has waged the present-day War on Terror.
Attending to the local histories from which these conflicts emerged and examining the effects of U.S. intervention in these sites, contributors analyze the cultural frameworks for understanding and remembering past conflicts that confirm, challenge, or refigure the logics of the War on Terror. This volume reveals how contestations over sovereignty, extraction, and inequality must be suppressed and flattened in public discourse to maintain a coherent vision of a totalizing War on Terror. Together, the contributors illustrate that there was no single road that led to 9/11 or the War on Terror. Rather, they argue that we must follow multiple paths into the past to fully understand our present and to fight for a more just future.
Contributors: Moustafa Bayoumi, Joo Ok Kim, Janne Lahti, A. J. Yumi Lee, Naveed Mansoori, Karen R. Miller, Kalyan Nadiminti, Tim Roberts, Colleen Woods.
Author / Editor information
A. J. Yumi Lee is Assistant Professor of English at Villanova University.
Karen R. Miller is Professor of History at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York.
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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FOREWORD
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INTRODUCTION Prehistories of the War on Terror
1 - PART I Settler Colonialism and Counterinsurgency on the US Frontier
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CHAPTER 1 The French Influence on American Counterinsurgency Warfare
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CHAPTER 2 Borderlands of Terror: The US-Apache Wars
40 - PART II US Colonial Legacies and State Violence in the Philippines
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CHAPTER 3 Terrains of Dissent: Muslim Land Dispossession, Coloniality, and Terror in the 1930s and the Contemporary Philippines
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CHAPTER 4 Lessons in Counterinsurgency: The Huk Campaign and the Global Cold War
84 - PART III Freedom, Terror, and the Ongoing Korean War
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CHAPTER 5 “Freedom Is Not Free,” From the Korean War to the War on Terror
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CHAPTER 6 A Problem of Knowledge: Epistemologies of Terror in North Korean and US Print Cultures and US Global Statecraft
132 - PART IV Wars of Terror in South and West Asia
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CHAPTER 7 Unruly Historicism: Post-9/ 11 Anti-Imperial Style in the South Asian Anglophone Novel
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CHAPTER 8 Hostage to Crisis: The Specter of the Permanent Threat in the Era of Live Television
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NOTES
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CONTRIBUTORS
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INDEX
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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