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Arming America : The Origins of a National Gun Culture by Michael A. Bellesiles (2000, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100375402101
ISBN-139780375402104
eBay Product ID (ePID)1625922
Product Key Features
Book TitleArming America : the Origins of a National Gun Culture
Number of Pages624 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicMilitary / Weapons, United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), United States / General
Publication Year2000
GenreHistory
AuthorMichael A. Bellesiles
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.4 in
Item Weight36.8 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN00-106191
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal683.4/00973
SynopsisHow and when did Americans develop their obsession with guns? Is gun-related violence so deeply embedded in American historical experience as to be immutable? The accepted answers to these questions are "mythology," says Michael A. Bellesiles. Basing his arguments on sound and prodigious research, Bellesiles makes it clear that gun ownership was the exception--even on the frontier--until the age of industrialization. In Colonial America the average citizen had virtually no access to or training in the use of firearms, and the few guns that did exist were kept under strict control. No guns were made in America until after the Revolution, and there were few gunsmiths to keep them in repair. Bellesiles shows that the U.S. government, almost from its inception, worked to arm its citizens, but it met only public indifference and resistance until the 1850s, when technological advances--such as repeating revolvers with self-contained bullets--contributed to a surge in gun manufacturing. Finally, we see how the soaring gun production engendered by the Civil War, and the decision to allow soldiers to keep their weapons at the end of the conflict, transformed the gun from a seldom-needed tool to a perceived necessity--opposing ideas that are still at the center of the fight for and against gun control today. Michael A. Bellesiles's research set off a chain of passionate reaction after its publication in the Journal of American History in 1996, and Arming America is certain to be one of the most controversial and widely read books on the subject. From the Hardcover edition.
LC Classification NumberHV8059.B395 2000
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