02965oam 2200673I 450 991078373330332120230617002622.01-134-35801-61-134-35802-40-203-39037-71-280-05482-40-203-35206-810.4324/9780203352069 (CKB)1000000000247691(EBL)200565(OCoLC)437061334(SSID)ssj0000288653(PQKBManifestationID)11214414(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000288653(PQKBWorkID)10382296(PQKB)11761614(MiAaPQ)EBC200565(Au-PeEL)EBL200565(CaPaEBR)ebr10093549(CaONFJC)MIL5482(OCoLC)56557808(EXLCZ)99100000000024769120180331d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAmerican extremism history, politics and the militia movement /D. J. MulloyLondon ;New York :Routledge,2004.1 online resource (264 p.)Routledge studies in extremism and democracyDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-48380-8 0-415-32674-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Series editors' preface; Introducing the militia movement; Approaching extremism: theoretical perspectives on the far right in American history; Conversations with the dead: the militia movement and American history; A Revolutionary history; A republican tradition; A frontier nation; Conclusion: history and conspiracy; Notes; Selected bibliography; IndexAmerican Extremism explains how at the heart of the politics practiced by the militia movement is an attempt to define the nature of 'Americanism', and shows how militia members employ the myths, metaphors and perceived historical lessons of the American Revolution, the constitutional settlement and America's frontier experience to do so. Mulloy argues that militia members' search for the 'authority of history' leads them to a position best characterized as 'ahistorical historicism', in which political interests in the present are given greater weight than the demands of a historicallRoutledge studies in extremism and democracy.Militia movementsUnited StatesRadicalismUnited StatesRight-wing extremistsUnited StatesMilitia movementsRadicalismRight-wing extremists322.4/2/0973Mulloy D. J.1549034MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910783733303321American extremism3814526UNINA