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Arming America : the origins of a national gun culture  Cover Image Book Book

Arming America : the origins of a national gun culture

Summary: Traces the rise of America's gun culture to the mid-nineteenth century, arguing that Civil War gun manufacturing and allowing ex-soldiers to keep their weapons changed the gun from a scarce and seldom-used tool to a perceived necessity.

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  • ISBN: 0375402101
  • ISBN: 9780375402104
  • ISBN: 0375701982
  • ISBN: 9780375701986
  • Physical Description: print
    603 p. ; 25 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: In search of guns -- ch. 1. European gun heritage -- ch. 2. Role of guns in the conquest of North America -- ch. 3. Guns in the daily life of colonial America -- ch. 4. Creation of the first American gun culture : Indians and firearms -- ch. 5. Brown Bess in the wilderness -- ch. 6. People numerous and unarmed -- ch. 7. Government promotion of gun production -- ch. 8. From indifference to disdain -- ch. 9. Creation of a gun subculture -- ch. 10. Arming of the American people.
Subject: Firearms ownership United States History
Vuurwapens
Wapenbezit
Populaire cultuur
Waffe Gesellschaft USA Geschichte
Gewehr USA Geschichte
Gewehr Gesellschaft USA Geschichte
Waffe USA Geschichte
Feuerwaffe Gesellschaft USA Geschichte
Schusswaffe
Armes à feu États-Unis Histoire
USA Feuerwaffe Gesellschaft Geschichte
USA

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