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Title Between sovereignty and anarchy : the politics of violence in the American Revolutionary era / edited by Patrick Griffin, Robert G. Ingram, Peter S. Onuf, and Brian Schoen
Published [Place of publication not identified] : University of Virginia Press, 2015

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Series Jeffersonian America
Jeffersonian America.
Contents Introduction / Patrick Griffin -- "The constant snare of the fear of man": authority and violence in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic / Andrew Cayton -- Destroying and reforming Canaan: making America British / Patrick Griffin -- "Not by force or violence": religious violence, anti-Catholicism, and the rights of conscience in the early national United States / Chris Beneke -- Government without arms; arms without government: the case of Pennsylvania / Jessica Choppin Roney -- Stamps and popes: rethinking the role of violence in the coming of the American Revolution / Peter C. Messer -- Social death and slavery : the logic of political association and the logic of chattel slavery in revolutionary America / Peter Thompson -- Violence and the limits of the political community in revolutionary Pennsylvania / Kenneth Owen -- Whiskey chaser: democracy and violence in the debate over the democratic-republican societies and the Whiskey Rebellion / Jeffrey L. Pasley -- Escaping insecurity: the American founding and the control of violence / David C. Hendrickson -- American Hercules: militant sovereignty and violence in the democratic-republican imagination, 1793-1795 / Matthew Rainbow Hale -- The Battle of Fallen Timbers: an assertion of U.S. sovereignty in the Atlantic world along the banks of the Maumee River / John C. Kotruch -- Epilogue / Peter Onuf
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Vendor-supplied metadata
Subject Violence -- United States -- History -- 18th century
Political violence -- United States -- History -- 18th century
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
Political violence
Politics and government
Violence
SUBJECT United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140139
United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140413
Subject United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Griffin, Patrick, editor
Ingram, Robert G., editor.
Onuf, Peter S., editor.
Schoen, Brian, editor.
ISBN 9780813936789
0813936780
132286926X
9781322869261
9780813936796
0813936799