Darren Mulloy

American Extremism

History, Politics and the Militia Movement

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

American Extremism explains how at the heart of the politics practiced by the militia movement is an attempt to define the nature of 'Americanism'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780415326742
• ISBN-10: 0415326745
• Artikelnr.: 22372907

Autorenporträt

Darren Mulloy

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1. Introducing the Militia Movement (i) America in the 1990s: The
paranoid decade? (ii) Gun Control, and the Sieges of Ruby Ridge and Waco 2.
Approaching Extremism: Theoretical perspectives on the far right in
American history (i) Defining Extremism (ii) Status Politics and Status
Anxiety: Questions of causation (iii) Style: The characteristics of
extremists (iv) A Critique: Towards an alternative approach 3.
Conversations with the Dead: The militia movement and American history (i)
Inheriting the Past (ii) Contesting the Past (iii) Accessing the Past (iv)
The Authority of History 4. A Revolutionary History (i) Citizen Soldiers,
Militias and the American War of Independence (ii) The Rhetoric of
Revolutionary Action (iii) A Sacred Text: The militia movement and the
Declaration of Independence (iv) Conclusion: A continuing inspiration 5. A
Republican Tradition (i) The Lost Republic (ii) Reconstructing
Republicanism: Basic principles (iii) The Limited Republic (iv) Resisting
Tyranny: Militias and the Second Amendment (v) Conclusion: A Republican
legacy? 6. A Frontier Nation (i) Going West: Militias, independence and the
American frontier (ii) Fighting Talk: Militias and the ideology of
vigilantism (iii) The Homestead Ethic (iv) No Duty To Retreat: The militia
movement and the code of the West (v) Remembering the Alamo: Militias and
the history of Texas (vi) Conclusion: The weird West? 7. Conclusion:
History and conspiracy Selected Bibliography