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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Catherine McNicol Stock |
| ISBN: | 0801432944 9780801432941 0801483654 9780801483653 |
| OCLC Number: | 34710754 |
| Description: | xi, 219 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Catherine McNicol Stock. |
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Abstract:
As early as 1676, rural Virginians took up arms to protest what they considered economic and political injustices, and the fierce protective responses did not stop with the Revolution. Stock examines recurring themes in rural radical movements, including anti-federalism, white supremacy, populism, and vigilantism. These themes suggest to her some of the seemingly contradictory responses implicit in rural discontent. The politically conservative fear of outside power and authority in the form of government, corporations, international institutions, experts, and the media is juxtaposed with the potentially democratic desire to protect and revive community, culture, and the cooperative tradition. Stock believes we need to understand both the historic roots and the diverse manifestations of rural radicalism in order to make some sense of the action that tore a hole in this country's heartland in the spring of 1995.
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- Radicalism -- United States -- History.
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