Britain and Terrorism

Reviews / Votes

"By applying sociological insights, most notably influenced by the work of Norbert Elias, to the 250 year development of terrorism in the UK, Michael Dunning has produced an impressively insightful and innovative book. Britain and Terrorism is founded upon a refreshing breadth of expertise that brings to the forefront the social conditions both behind the designation of behaviour as terrorism and the acts that are undertaken by designated terrorists. Consequently this book should be essential reading for anyone who is keen to gain a thoroughly well informed and detached analysis of the concept of terrorism and associated actions.

- Stephen Vertigans , Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK

"Dunning offers a long-term view of the changing perception, as well as the practice, of terrorism. It avoids especially the fallacy of trying to understand it through the psychology of the terrorist alone. The book invokes the spirit of Norbert Elias,and is a worthy contribution to that classic tradition."

- Stephen Mennell , Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University College Dublin.