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UNINA9910453350703321 |
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Autore |
Kirkpatrick Jennet <1970-> |
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Titolo |
Uncivil disobedience [[electronic resource] ] : studies in violence and democratic politics / / Jennet Kirkpatrick |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2008 |
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ISBN |
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9786612964350 |
1-4008-2886-4 |
1-282-96435-6 |
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Edizione |
[Course Book] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (152 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Political violence - United States |
Militia movements - United States |
Vigilance committees - United States |
Lynching - United States |
Antislavery movements - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [119]-131) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Violence, American style -- Frontier vigilance committees -- Southern lynch mobs -- Militant abolitionists -- A nation of people or laws. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"Uncivil Disobedience examines the roles violence and terrorism have played in the exercise of democratic ideals in America. Jennet Kirkpatrick explores how crowds, rallying behind the principle of popular sovereignty and desiring to make law conform to justice, can disdain law and engage in violence. She exposes the hazards of democracy that arise when citizens seek to control government directly, and demonstrates the importance of laws and institutions as limitations on the will of the people." "Kirkpatrick looks at some of the most explosive instances of uncivil disobedience in American history: the contemporary militia movement, Southern lynch mobs, frontier vigilantism, and militant abolitionism. She argues that the groups behind these violent episodes are often motivated by admirable democratic ideas of popular power and autonomy. Kirkpatrick shows how, in this respect, they are not so unlike the much-admired |
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