Prehistories of the War on Terror: A Critical Genealogy

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 Pac...