Bulwark of the Republic

Autorentext
Mary Ellen Rowe is professor of history at Central Missouri State University. She holds a PhD from the University of Washington. Her interests include popular culture of the early Federal and Jacksonian eras and Native American History. She has worked with historical societies in the Pacific Northwest.

Klappentext
Although a poor replacement for a professional military in wartime, the militia embodied a set of ideas that defined attitudes toward social order, civic responsibility, and the nature and relative powers of the government. It was the supreme expression of civic values in a traditional, communal, agrarian village society. Rowe argues that the antebellum militia should be seen as a social and political institution, rather than a military one, and contends that it is a key to understanding the political and social values of early 19th century America. Ultimately, changing social and political values, demographic change and mobility, and finally the dramatic expansion of federal power occasioned by the Civil War would destroy the traditional militia.

Because the militia's functions, failures, and meanings were most clearly apparent in new settlements along the frontier, Rowe examines three case studies that represent successive leaps across the Appalachians (Kentucky), the Mississippi (Missouri), and the Great Plains (Washington Territory). The first generation of settlers in Kentucky deliberately built a formal militia organization, in part for self-defense, in part as an explicit ideological and political statement. Despite both pre-existing Franco-Spanish militia and federal attempts to use the Territory in militia reform, American settlers in Missouri created a traditional Anglo-American militia there. A generation later, settlers in Washington Territory attempted to do the same, but the effort dissolved in a bitter controversy over the territorial governor's declaration of martial law.

Zusammenfassung
Examines the antebellum militia as a social and political institution rather than a military one, and argues that it is a key to understanding the political ideology and social values of early 19th century America.

Inhalt
Acknowledgment Introduction Claiming Kentucky To the Wide Missouri The War of 1812 in the West Kentucky, Missouri, and the Nation Jacksonian Missouri The Arms of a Republican Empire Oregon and Washington Indian War and Martial Law Border Wars and Disputed Boundaries Bibliography Index

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