The reign of terror in America
Subtitle: visions of violence from anti-Jacobinism to antislavery
By: Rachel Hope Cleves.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780521884358
Subjects: Violence -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Antislavery movements -- United States -- History; United States -- History -- 1783-1865; United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes; France -- History -- Reign of Terror, 1793-1794; France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Influence -- United States
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Violence and social order in the early American republic; title: A scene of confusion and blood; title: Mortal eloquence; title: Fighting the War of 1812; title: Disciplining the 'Wild Beast'; title: Growing up anti-Jacobin.