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... to the cultural consciousness, as Christopher F. Loar has argued: even in early eighteenth- century Britain, which is not typically understood as a society at war, political thinking was shaped by the Civil Wars, as well as more recent events that centered on force and liberty (including the Sacheverell trial...

... and gunpowder, themselves tools of reason, serve as a ¨gure for the vio- lence and warfare that lurk at the foundational moment of sovereignty, as Christopher Loar emphasizes.46 If, for England and Europe, the Barbary wars were proximate geographically, and waged against the commensurate Islamic states...

... in Postcolonial and Postcommunist Modes,” Critique 36 (1995): 145 – ​49; Brett C. McInelly, “Expanding Empires, Expanding Selves: Colonialism, the Novel, and Robinson Crusoe,” Studies in the Novel 35 (2003): 1 – ​21; Christopher F. Loar, “How to Say Things with Guns: Military Technology and the Politics...