Churchill, Robert H.

To shake their guns in the tyrant's face libertarian political violence and the origins of the militia movement / [electronic resource] : Robert H. Churchill. - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2009. - xiii, 370 p. : ill., map.

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.





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Militia movements--History.--United States
Radicalism--History.--United States
Government, Resistance to--History.--United States


Electronic books.

HN90.R3 / C485 2009

322.4/20973