To shake their guns in the tyrant's face : libertarian political violence and the origins of the militia movement /

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"After the bombings of Oklahoma City in 1995, most Americans were shocked to discover that tens of thousands of their fellow citizens had banded together in homegrown militias. Within the next few years, numerous studies and media reports appeared revealing the unseen world of the American mili...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Churchill, Robert H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2009.
Temas:
Militia movements > United States > History.
Radicalism > United States > History.
Government, Resistance to > United States > History.
Milices > États-Unis > Histoire.
Radicalisme > États-Unis > Histoire.
Résistance au gouvernement > États-Unis > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Political Advocacy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Civil Rights.
Government, Resistance to.
Militia movements.
Radicalism.
Militarismus
United States.
USA.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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