02335nam a2200373 a 4500 ebr10412514 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 081103s2009 miuab sb s001 0 eng 2008048161 GBA923663 bnb 014921793 Uk 9780472116829 (cloth : alk. paper) 0472116827 (cloth : alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)680623241 n-us--- HN90.R3 C485 2009eb 322.4/20973 22 Churchill, Robert H. To shake their guns in the tyrant's face [electronic resource] : libertarian political violence and the origins of the militia movement / 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. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Militia movements United States History. Radicalism United States History. Government, Resistance to United States History. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10412514 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 87125 87125