310: The Rise of Terrorism in the 19th Century w/ James Crossland

Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

Erik Rivenes

True Crime, History, Education

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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On January 14, 1858, Felice Orsini and his fellow Italian revolutionaries tossed his newly designed bombs at the carriage of Emperor Napoleon III, outside of the Paris Opera House. This frightening new form of terrorism would have global ramifications, inspiring nihilists, anarchists, nationalists and others, angry about a wide range of injustices both real and perceived, to create chaos around the world. My guest is Dr. James Crossland, author of "The Rise of Devils: Fear and the Origins of Modern Terrorism". He walks us through the evolution of terrorism in the second half of the nineteenth century and talks about some of the events historically associated with terrorism in this period, including the assassinations of President William McKinley and Tsar Alexander II and Chicago's Haymarket Riot. More about the author here: https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/staff-profiles/faculty-of-arts-professional-and-social-studies/humanities-and-social-science/james-crossland You can purchase the book through Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/rise-devils-origins-modern-terrorism/dp/1526160676/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All you need is a few minutes to start your day off with something historic when you
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0:30.0	Hello all, Eric Riven is here, another episode of Most Notorious,
0:59.9	coming at you today, so glad you're here and a big welcome today to James Crossland.
1:07.5	He is a reader in International History at Liverpool John Moore's University.
1:13.8	He has recently published his third book and it's called The Rise of Devils, Fear in the
1:19.8	Origins of Modern Terror and it focuses on the development of international terrorism
1:26.4	across the transatlantic world during the late 19th century.
1:32.1	Thank you so much for being a guest on the show today.
1:35.4	Thank you for having me.
1:36.8	Yeah, so where did the inspiration for this book come from?
1:42.2	A couple of things I'd been writing about networks and the means by which information
1:50.4	sort of moved around the transatlantic world in the late 19th century and that was a previous
1:56.0	book where I was looking at basically ideas about warfare and how to limit the excesses
2:02.0	of it.
2:03.0	And I realized when I was going through the source material there that there were a number
2:06.7	of people who were involved in these sort of proto pacifist movements I guess who were
2:13.4	also inclined towards radical ideology, anarchism being a key one.
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