Chapter 1 Introducing the militia movement -- chapter 2 Approaching extremism -- chapter 3 Conversations with the dead -- chapter 4 A Revolutionary history -- chapter 5 A republican tradition -- chapter 6 A frontier nation -- chapter 7 Conclusion: history and conspiracy
Summary
American Extremism explains how at the heart of the politics practiced by the militia movement is an attempt to define the nature of 'Americanism', and shows how militia members employ the myths, metaphors and perceived historical lessons of the American Revolution, the constitutional settlement and America's frontier experience to do so. Mulloy argues that militia members' search for the 'authority of history' leads them to a position best characterized as 'ahistorical historicism', in which political interests in the present are given greater weight than the demands of a historicall
