Includes bibliographical references and index.

Terror and tyrannicide in the Ancient world -- Terror and tyrannicide in the Middle Ages -- Terror and tyrannicide in the early Modern Era in Europe -- The dawn of revolutionary terrorism -- Russian revolutionary terrorism -- The era of European Attentat -- Labor, anarchy, and terror in America -- White supremacy and American racial terrorism -- The dawn of ethno-nationalist terrorism -- The era of state terror -- Decolonization and ethno-nationalist terrorism from the 1930s to the early 1960s -- Decolonization and ethno-nationalist terrorism from the late 1960s to the present -- The era of leftist and international terrorism -- The rise of Jihadist terrorism -- Alternative terrorisms -- 9/11, the War on Terror, and recent trends in terrorism.