LEADER 03902nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910791063203321 005 20230721012011.0 010 $a9786612964350 010 $a1-4008-2886-4 010 $a1-282-96435-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400828869 035 $a(CKB)2550000001251842 035 $a(EBL)646764 035 $a(OCoLC)701704264 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000474062 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11913277 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000474062 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10466843 035 $a(PQKB)10892386 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC646764 035 $a(OCoLC)719377480 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36749 035 $a(DE-B1597)446628 035 $a(OCoLC)979578738 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400828869 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL646764 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10442069 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL296435 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001251842 100 $a20080129d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aUncivil disobedience$b[electronic resource] $estudies in violence and democratic politics /$fJennet Kirkpatrick 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (152 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-13877-X 311 $a0-691-13709-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [119]-131) and index. 327 $aViolence, American style -- Frontier vigilance committees -- Southern lynch mobs -- Militant abolitionists -- A nation of people or laws. 330 1 $a"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 adherents of nonviolent civil disobedience, yet she reveals how those who engage in violent disobedience use these admirable democratic principles as a justification for terrorism and killing. She uses a "bottom-up" analysis of events to explain how this transformation takes place, paying close attention to what members of these groups do and how they think about the relationship between citizens and the law." "Uncivil Disobedience calls for a new vision of liberal democracy where the rule of the people and the rule of law are recognized as fundamental ideals, and where neither is triumphant or transcendent."--BOOK JACKET. 606 $aPolitical violence$zUnited States 606 $aMilitia movements$zUnited States 606 $aVigilance committees$zUnited States 606 $aLynching$zUnited States 606 $aAntislavery movements$zUnited States 615 0$aPolitical violence 615 0$aMilitia movements 615 0$aVigilance committees 615 0$aLynching 615 0$aAntislavery movements 676 $a303.6/20973 700 $aKirkpatrick$b Jennet$f1970-$01577873 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791063203321 996 $aUncivil disobedience$93856816 997 $aUNINA