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catalog abstract "Overview: American Extremism explains how at the heart of the politics practiced by the militia movement is an attempt to define the nature of 'Americanism', and shows how militia members employ the myths, metaphors and perceived historical lessons of the American Revolution, the constitutional settlement and America's frontier experience to do so. Mulloy argues that militia members' search for the 'authority of history' leads them to a position best characterized as 'a historical historicism', in which political interests in the present are given greater weight than the demands of a historically accurate reading of the past. With discussion of such recent events as the Oklahoma City bombing, Waco and the September 11th attacks alongside topical issues including militia conspiracy theories and the origins of Americans' right to keep and bear arms, this work provides the deepest understanding to date of the American militia movement.".
catalog contributor b13207003.
catalog created "2004.".
catalog date "2004".
catalog date "2004.".
catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-221) and index.".
catalog description "Overview: American Extremism explains how at the heart of the politics practiced by the militia movement is an attempt to define the nature of 'Americanism', and shows how militia members employ the myths, metaphors and perceived historical lessons of the American Revolution, the constitutional settlement and America's frontier experience to do so. Mulloy argues that militia members' search for the 'authority of history' leads them to a position best characterized as 'a historical historicism', in which political interests in the present are given greater weight than the demands of a historically accurate reading of the past. With discussion of such recent events as the Oklahoma City bombing, Waco and the September 11th attacks alongside topical issues including militia conspiracy theories and the origins of Americans' right to keep and bear arms, this work provides the deepest understanding to date of the American militia movement.".
catalog description "Preface -- Series editors' preface -- 1: Introducing The Militia Movement: -- Where and why? The location and causes of the militia movement -- America in the 1990s: paranoid decade? -- Gun control and the sieges of Ruby Ridge and Waco -- 2: Approaching Extremism: Theoretical Perspectives On The Far Right In American History: -- Defining extremism -- Status politics and status anxiety: questions of causation -- Style: characteristics of extremists -- Critique: towards an alternative approach -- 3: Conversations With The Dead: Militia Movement And American History: -- Inheriting the past -- Contesting the past -- Accessing the past -- Authority of history -- 4: Revolutionary History: -- Citizen soldiers, militias, and the American War of Independence -- Rhetoric of revolutionary action -- Sacred text: militia movement and the Declaration of Independence -- Conclusion: continuing inspiration? -- 5: Republican Tradition: -- Lost republic -- Reconstructing republicanism: basic principles -- Limited republic -- Resisting tyranny: militias and the Second Amendment -- Conclusion: republican legacy? -- 6: Frontier Nation: -- Going west: militias, independence, and the American frontier -- Fighting talk: militias and the ideology of vigilantism -- Homestead ethic -- No duty to retreat: militia movement and the code of the west -- Remembering the Alamo: militias and the history of Texas -- Conclusion: weird west? -- 7: Conclusion: History And Conspiracy: -- Conspiratorial turn -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.".
catalog extent "xv, 230 p. ;".
catalog identifier "0415326745 (Hardcover)".
catalog isPartOf "Routledge studies in extremism and democracy".
catalog isPartOf "Routledge studies in extremism and democracy. Routledge research in extremism and democracy ; 6.".
catalog issued "2004".
catalog issued "2004.".
catalog language "eng".
catalog publisher "London ; New York : Routledge,".
catalog spatial "United States.".
catalog subject "322.4/2/0973 22".
catalog subject "HN90.R3 M85 2004".
catalog subject "Militia movements United States.".
catalog subject "Radicalism United States.".
catalog subject "Right-wing extremists United States.".
catalog tableOfContents "Preface -- Series editors' preface -- 1: Introducing The Militia Movement: -- Where and why? The location and causes of the militia movement -- America in the 1990s: paranoid decade? -- Gun control and the sieges of Ruby Ridge and Waco -- 2: Approaching Extremism: Theoretical Perspectives On The Far Right In American History: -- Defining extremism -- Status politics and status anxiety: questions of causation -- Style: characteristics of extremists -- Critique: towards an alternative approach -- 3: Conversations With The Dead: Militia Movement And American History: -- Inheriting the past -- Contesting the past -- Accessing the past -- Authority of history -- 4: Revolutionary History: -- Citizen soldiers, militias, and the American War of Independence -- Rhetoric of revolutionary action -- Sacred text: militia movement and the Declaration of Independence -- Conclusion: continuing inspiration? -- 5: Republican Tradition: -- Lost republic -- Reconstructing republicanism: basic principles -- Limited republic -- Resisting tyranny: militias and the Second Amendment -- Conclusion: republican legacy? -- 6: Frontier Nation: -- Going west: militias, independence, and the American frontier -- Fighting talk: militias and the ideology of vigilantism -- Homestead ethic -- No duty to retreat: militia movement and the code of the west -- Remembering the Alamo: militias and the history of Texas -- Conclusion: weird west? -- 7: Conclusion: History And Conspiracy: -- Conspiratorial turn -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.".
catalog title "American extremism : history, politics and the militia movement / D.J. Mulloy.".
catalog type "text".