"<i>Prehistories of the War on Terror</i> 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

"<i>Prehistories of the War on Terror</i> 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