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6/11/2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NATCHITOCHES – Richard Bach Jensen, associate professor of history in the Louisiana Scholars’ College at Northwestern State University, will present a paper, “The International Campaign Against Anarchist Terrorism, 1880-1914/1930s” at a conference being held in Arlington Va., Friday and Saturday.
The conference, “What Can and Cannot Be Learned From History about Terrorism: A Dialogue between Historians and Social Scientists,” is sponsored by the Human Factors Division, Science and Technology Directorate of the Department of Homeland Security. David C. Rapoport, professor emeritus at UCLA and an internationally recognized authority on terrorism, is the conference organizer. The event will bring together leading historians and social scientists from universities in the United States, Britain and Egypt.
Jensen’s paper presents a brief overview of anarchist terrorism, devoting the majority of its space to analyzing efforts to control anarchist terrorism during its classic era, between 1880 and World War I. The paper concludes by discussing anarchist terrorism during the lesser known period from 1914 through the 1930s. The paper is based on more than a dozen years of research in archives in Britain, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain and Argentina.
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