The first global history of the secret diplomatic and police campaign against anarchist terrorism from 1880 to the 1920s.

Richard Bach Jensen is Professor of History at the Louisiana Scholars' College at Northwestern State University. He is a recognized authority on the repression of anarchist terrorism and has published widely in the field. His previous publications include Liberty and Order: The Theory and Practice of Italian Public Security Policy, 1848 to the Crisis of the 1890s (1991).

Introduction; 1. The origins of anarchist terrorism; 2. Conspiracies, panics, agent provocateurs, mass journalism, and globalization; 3. International action against subversives: 1815-89; 4. The terrorist '90s and increasing police cooperation: 1890-8; 5. The first International Conference on Terrorism: Rome 1898; 6. 1900: three assassination attempts and the Russo-German Anti-Anarchist Initiative; 7. The murder of President McKinley, 1901; 8. The St Petersburg Protocol, 1901-4; 9. Multilateral anti-anarchist efforts after 1904; 10. The decline of anarchist terrorism, 1900-30s; Appendix; Bibliography.