To shake their guns in the tyrant's face [electronic resource] : libertarian political violence and the origins of the militia movement / Robert H. Churchill.
By: Churchill, Robert H.
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BookPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2009Description: xiii, 370 p. : ill., map.Subject(s): Militia movements -- United States -- History | Radicalism -- United States -- History | Government, Resistance to -- United States -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 322.4/20973 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-353) and index.
The precedent of 1774: the role of insurgent violence in the political theory of the founding -- The revolution as living memory: Fries' Rebellion and The Alien and Sedition Act crisis of 1798-1800 -- The libertarian memory of the revolution in the Antebellum Era -- The roots of modern patriotism: conscription, resistance, and the Sons of Liberty conspiracy of 1864 -- Cleansing the memory of the revolution: Americanism, the black legion, and the first Brown Scare -- The making of the second Brown Scare: liberal pluralism and the evolution of the white supremacist right -- The origins of the militia movement: violence and memory on the suburban-rural frontier -- An exploration of militia ideology: the Whig diagnosis of post-Cold War America -- Epilogue: the defense of liberty in the age of terror.
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