Between Sovereignty and Anarchy: The Politics of Violence in the American Revolutionary Era.
- [Place of publication not identified] : University of Virginia Press, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction / "The constant snare of the fear of man": authority and violence in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic / Destroying and reforming Canaan: making America British / "Not by force or violence": religious violence, anti-Catholicism, and the rights of conscience in the early national United States / Government without arms; arms without government: the case of Pennsylvania / Stamps and popes: rethinking the role of violence in the coming of the American Revolution / Social death and slavery : the logic of political association and the logic of chattel slavery in revolutionary America / Violence and the limits of the political community in revolutionary Pennsylvania / Whiskey chaser: democracy and violence in the debate over the democratic-republican societies and the Whiskey Rebellion / Escaping insecurity: the American founding and the control of violence / American Hercules: militant sovereignty and violence in the democratic-republican imagination, 1793-1795 / The Battle of Fallen Timbers: an assertion of U.S. sovereignty in the Atlantic world along the banks of the Maumee River / Epilogue / Patrick Griffin -- Andrew Cayton -- Patrick Griffin -- Chris Beneke -- Jessica Choppin Roney -- Peter C. Messer -- Peter Thompson -- Kenneth Owen -- Jeffrey L. Pasley -- David C. Hendrickson -- Matthew Rainbow Hale -- John C. Kotruch -- Peter Onuf.
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Violence--History--United States--18th century. Political violence--History--United States--18th century.