Arming America : the origins of a national gun culture / Michael A. Bellesiles.
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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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2000.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.