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Out Now - Open AccessNew issue of the European History Yearbook published on "Victimhood and Acknowledgment: The Other Side of Terrorism"&#160;ed. by Petra Terhoeven, with contributions by:Petra Terhoeven on Victimhood and AcknowledgementAnke Hilbrenner on The Making of Terrorist Victims in Pre-Revolutionary RussiaMary Breen-Smyth on Victims and Survivors in the Northern Ireland Conflict Anna Cento Bull on Victims and Former Perpetrators in Dialogue in Italy Florian Jessenky and Martin Rupps on Former Hostages of the Hijacked Lufthansa Aircraft 'Landshut'Charlotte Klonk on Visualising Victims of TerrorPetra Terhoeven ConclusionThe history of terrorism has been largely a history of perpetrators, their motives and actions. The open access volume anaylses the other side of terrorism, which has always seemed to be of secondary importance. But terrorism is communication by violence, and its efficiency depends significantly on the selection and the treatment of the victims by the perpetrators, on the one hand, and the perception and acknowledgement of victimhood by the public, on the other. How does it affect our picture of the history of terrorism then, if the victims are moved centre stage? If the focus is put on their suffering, their agency, their helplessness, or on how they are acknowledged or exploited by society, politics and media? If the central role is taken into account which they play in terrorist propaganda as well as in the emotional response of the public? The contributions to this edition of the European History Yearbook will examine such questions in a broad range of historical case studies and methods, including visual history. Not least, they aim at historicizing the roles of survivors and relatives in the social process of coming to terms with terrorist violence, a question highly relevant up to the present day.Table of Contents EHY 19, 2018 pdfDownload