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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458649303321

Autore

Churchill Robert H

Titolo

To shake their guns in the tyrant's face [[electronic resource] ] : libertarian political violence and the origins of the militia movement / / Robert H. Churchill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-75419-X

9786612754197

0-472-02746-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (385 p.)

Disciplina

322.4/20973

Soggetti

Militia movements - United States - History

Radicalism - United States - History

Government, Resistance to - United States - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-353) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.