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Author Kirkpatrick, Jennet, 1970-

Title Uncivil disobedience : studies in violence and democratic politics / Jennet Kirkpatrick.

Imprint Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2008.

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Location Call No. Status
 CCQ - Lusail Female Library  HN90.V5    Available
 CCQ - Lusail Male Library  HN90.V5    Available
Description x, 139 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [119]-131) and index.
Contents Violence, American style -- Frontier vigilance committees -- Southern lynch mobs -- Militant abolitionists -- A nation of people or laws.
Summary "Uncivil Disobedience examines the roles violence and terrorism have played in the exercise of democratic ideals in America. Jennet Kirkpatrick explores how crowds, rallying behind the principle of popular sovereignty and desiring to make law co
Subject Political violence -- United States.
Militia movements -- United States.
Vigilance committees -- United States.
Lynching -- United States.
Antislavery movements -- United States.
ISBN 9780691137094 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0691137099 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780691138770 (pbk. : alk. paper)
069113877X (pbk. : alk. paper)