Between sovereignty and anarchy : the politics of violence in the American revolutionary era
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Between sovereignty and anarchy : the politics of violence in the American revolutionary era
（Jeffersonian America）
University of Virginia Press, 2015
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- "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
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Between Sovereignty and Anarchy considers the conceptual and political problem of violence in the early modern Anglo-Atlantic, charting an innovative approach to the history of the American Revolution. Its editors and contributors contend that existing scholarship on the Revolution largely ignores questions of power and downplays the Revolution as a contest over sovereignty. Contributors employ a variety of methodologies to examine diverse themes, ranging from how Atlantic perspectives can redefine our understanding of revolutionary origins; to the ways in which political culture, mobilization, and civil-war-like violence were part of the revolutionary process; to the fundamental importance of state formation for the history of the early republic.
The editors skillfully meld these emerging currents together to produce a new perspective on the American Revolution, revealing how America—first as colonies, then as united states—reeled between poles of anarchy and sovereignty. This interpretation—gleaned from essays on frontier bloodshed, religion, civility, slavery, loyalism, mobilization, early national political culture, and warmaking—provides a needed stimulus to a field that has not strayed beyond the bounds of ""rhetoric versus reality"" for more than a generation. Between Sovereignty and Anarchy raises foundational questions about how we are to view the American Revolution and the type of experimental democracy that emerged in its wake.
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