ARMING AMERICA - THE ORIGINS OF A NATIONAL GUN CULTURE by Bellesiles, Michael A ISBN 0375701982
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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.
Michael A. Bellesiles's Arming America is a stunning and seminal book that challenges everything Americans have previously been taught about their history with guns. Painstaking in his examination of the historical record, Bellesiles shatters the myth of America's gun-toting forefathers. Most early settlers were indifferent or hostile towards guns, which until the middle of the nineteenth century were scarce and unreliable. Even members of the militia were drastically short of firearms. Not until the Civil War did a gun culture take hold on America, and it did so for reasons which were far from patriotic or noble. Timely, provocative and overwhelmingly thorough, this book is a singular historical work destined to have profound ramifications in the current debate over guns.
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[edit] Title
ARMING AMERICA - THE ORIGINS OF A NATIONAL GUN CULTURE
[edit] Author
Bellesiles, Michael A
[edit] ISBN
0375701982
[edit] Published
21/03/2002
[edit] Publisher
Random House Inc., U.S.
[edit] Binding
paperback
[edit] Retail Price
12.99 (GBP)
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12.99 (GBP)
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