Arming America The Origins of a National Gun Culture

Name: Arming America The Origins of a National Gun Culture
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ISBN: 9780375701986

ISBN-10: 0375701982

ISBN-13: 9780375701986

Edition: 2001

Authors: Michael A. Bellesiles

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This book challenges everything Americans have previously been taught about their history with guns. In examining the historical record, Bellesiles shatters the myth of America's gun-toting forefathers.

Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/11/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 624
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Michael A. Bellesiles is Associate Professor of History at Emory University & Director of Emory's Center for the Study of Violence. He is the author of "Revolutionary Outlaws: Ethan Allen & the Struggle for Independence on the Early American Frontier," & of numerous articles & reviews. He lives in Atlanta.



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


Epilogue


Appendix


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index