TY - BOOK AU - Churchill,Robert H. ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - To shake their guns in the tyrant's face: libertarian political violence and the origins of the militia movement AV - HN90.R3 C485 2009 U1 - 322.4/20973 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Ann Arbor PB - University of Michigan Press KW - Militia movements KW - United States KW - History KW - Radicalism KW - Government, Resistance to KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3414934 ER -