The historical origins of terrorism in America : 1644-1880 / Robert Kumamoto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kumamoto, Robert D., 1948-

Contributor:

Herman V. Ames Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Terrorism--United States--History.

Terrorism.

Radicalism--United States--History.

Radicalism.

Extremists--United States--History.

Extremists.

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

298 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2014.

Summary:

When we think of American terrorism, it is modern, individual terrorists such as Timothy McVeigh that typically spring to mind. But terrorism has existed in America since the colonial period, when small groups participated in organized and unlawful violence in the hope of creating a state of fear for their own political purposes. Using case studies of groups such as the Green Mountain Boys, the Mollie Maguires, and the North Carolina Regulators, as well as the more widely known Sons of Liberty and the Ku Klux Klan, Robert Kumamoto introduces readers to the long history of terrorist activity in America. Sure to incite discussion and curiosity in anyone studying terrorism or early America, The Historical Origins of Terrorism in America brings together some of the most radical groups of the American past to show that a technique that we associate with modern atrocity actually has roots much farther back in the country's national psyche. Book jacket.

Contents:

The origins of political violence

The North Carolina regulators

The Green Mountain Boys

The Sons of Liberty

Popular protests in the new republic

The White Indians of Maine

The New York anti-rent war

The Ku Klux Klan

The Molly Maguires.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Herman V. Ames Fund.

ISBN:

9780415537544

0415537541

9780415537551

041553755X

OCLC:

858749330

Publisher Number:

99956924874