A. J. Yumi Lee is Assistant Professor of English at Villanova University.Karen R. Miller is Professor of History at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York.

"Prehistories of the War on Terror shatters US exceptionalism with devastating historical specificity. With its stunning temporal, geographic, and disciplinary range of essays, this collection urgently demonstrates that any search for historical origins of US imperial violence implicates our political present." (Monica Kim, University of Wisconsin, Madison) "This vital, urgent, and absorbing collection of essays demands that we attend to the longer genealogy of imperial violence emanating from Washington, DC. From the decimation of the Apache nation to wars on the Korean Peninsula and the Philippines archipelago, the contributors to this book trace the histories of today's forever wars." (Laleh Khalili, University of Exeter) "Prehistories of the War on Terror is a devastating unraveling of the global US War on Terror as a presentist, exceptionalist, civilizational narrative and cultural-militarist project built on catastrophe upon catastrophe of more than a century of 'savage' colonial wars of counterinsurgency against decolonizing peoples across three continents. Historically illuminating and culturally penetrating, the essays gathered here not only testify to the transnational collusion of Western powers and the lasting consequences of brutal settler colonial and imperial wars on twenty-first century global politics. They also provide a powerful testament to the ever-continuing revolutionary struggles of people at the heart of contemporary global 'conflicts.' A much needed, timely opening up of alternative historical possibilities yet to be gleaned, this is an important work that can help us overcome our present era of permanent war." (Neferti X. M. Tadiar, author of Things Fall Away: Philippine Historical Experience and the Makings of Globalization)

• ForewordMoustafa BayoumiIntroduction. Prehistories of the War on Terror 1A. J. Yumi Lee and Karen R. MillerPart I. Settler Colonialism and Counterinsurgency on the US FrontierChapter 1. The French Influence on American Counterinsurgency Warfare Tim RobertsChapter 2. Borderlands of Terror: The US-Apache Wars Janne LahtiPart II. US Colonial Legacies and State Violence in the PhilippinesChapter 3. Terrains of Dissent: Muslim Land Dispossession, Coloniality, and Terror in the 1930s and the Contemporary Philippines Karen R. MillerChapter 4. Lessons in Counterinsurgency: The Huk Campaign and the Global Cold War Colleen WoodsPart III. Freedom, Terror, and the Ongoing Korean WarChapter 5. "Freedom Is Not Free": From the Korean War to the War on Terror A. J. Yumi LeeChapter 6. A Problem of Knowledge: Epistemologies of Terror in North Korean and US Print Cultures and US Global Statecraft Joo Ok KimPart IV. Wars of Terror in South and West AsiaChapter 7. Unruly Historicism: Post-9/11 Anti-Imperial Style in the South Asian Anglophone NovelKalyan NadimintiChapter 8. Hostage to Crisis: The Specter of the Permanent Threat in the Era of LiveTelevision Naveed MansooriNotes List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments

A. J. Yumi Lee is Assistant Professor of English at Villanova University.Karen R. Miller is Professor of History at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York.

"Prehistories of the War on Terror shatters US exceptionalism with devastating historical specificity. With its stunning temporal, geographic, and disciplinary range of essays, this collection urgently demonstrates that any search for historical origins of US imperial violence implicates our political present." (Monica Kim, University of Wisconsin, Madison) "This vital, urgent, and absorbing collection of essays demands that we attend to the longer genealogy of imperial violence emanating from Washington, DC. From the decimation of the Apache nation to wars on the Korean Peninsula and the Philippines archipelago, the contributors to this book trace the histories of today's forever wars." (Laleh Khalili, University of Exeter) "Prehistories of the War on Terror is a devastating unraveling of the global US War on Terror as a presentist, exceptionalist, civilizational narrative and cultural-militarist project built on catastrophe upon catastrophe of more than a century of 'savage' colonial wars of counterinsurgency against decolonizing peoples across three continents. Historically illuminating and culturally penetrating, the essays gathered here not only testify to the transnational collusion of Western powers and the lasting consequences of brutal settler colonial and imperial wars on twenty-first century global politics. They also provide a powerful testament to the ever-continuing revolutionary struggles of people at the heart of contemporary global 'conflicts.' A much needed, timely opening up of alternative historical possibilities yet to be gleaned, this is an important work that can help us overcome our present era of permanent war." (Neferti X. M. Tadiar, author of Things Fall Away: Philippine Historical Experience and the Makings of Globalization)

• ForewordMoustafa BayoumiIntroduction. Prehistories of the War on Terror 1A. J. Yumi Lee and Karen R. MillerPart I. Settler Colonialism and Counterinsurgency on the US FrontierChapter 1. The French Influence on American Counterinsurgency Warfare Tim RobertsChapter 2. Borderlands of Terror: The US-Apache Wars Janne LahtiPart II. US Colonial Legacies and State Violence in the PhilippinesChapter 3. Terrains of Dissent: Muslim Land Dispossession, Coloniality, and Terror in the 1930s and the Contemporary Philippines Karen R. MillerChapter 4. Lessons in Counterinsurgency: The Huk Campaign and the Global Cold War Colleen WoodsPart III. Freedom, Terror, and the Ongoing Korean WarChapter 5. "Freedom Is Not Free": From the Korean War to the War on Terror A. J. Yumi LeeChapter 6. A Problem of Knowledge: Epistemologies of Terror in North Korean and US Print Cultures and US Global Statecraft Joo Ok KimPart IV. Wars of Terror in South and West AsiaChapter 7. Unruly Historicism: Post-9/11 Anti-Imperial Style in the South Asian Anglophone NovelKalyan NadimintiChapter 8. Hostage to Crisis: The Specter of the Permanent Threat in the Era of LiveTelevision Naveed MansooriNotes List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments