Arming America : the origins of a national gun culture /
Draws on archival material to challenge popular misconceptions about the American belief system about arms rights, tracing "gun fever" to its European origins while documenting the rarity of firearms in early America as well as the technological advances and events that made guns an integr...
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Brooklyn, NY : [Emeryville, CA] :
Soft Skull Press ; Distributed by Publishers Group West,
2003.
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| Edition: | 1st Soft Skull Press ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: In Search of Guns
- The European Gun Heritage
- The Role of Guns in the Conquest of North America
- Guns in the Daily Life of Colonial America
- Creation of the First American Gun Culture: Indians and Firearms
- Brown Bess in the Wilderness
- A People Numerous and Unarmed
- Government Promotion of Gun Production
- From Indifference to Disdain
- Creation of a Gun Subculture
- The Arming of the American People.
