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Bellesiles, Michael A. Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture
New York, New York, U.S.A. Vintage Books 2001 0375701982 / 9780375701986 Trade Paperback Near-Fine
Near-fine condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Covers are clean and bright (NO tears). Tight spine, bright pages. 604 pages. Tight spine, clean pages. NO tears inside book. 28 pages show light writing and/or highlighting. Does NOT interfere with reading. Synopsis Americans have always staunchly, sometimes bloodily, defended their right to bear arms, but does the historical record bear out this right? Michael Bellesiles, in a meticulous study of the issue that draws extensively on archival material and original sources, says no. He traces "gun fever" to its European origins, documents the rarity of firearms in early America, covers technological advances, and details the strange series of developments during the Civil War that helped make the gun an integral and deadly fixture in modern American life. This revised and updated edition offers new research addressing critics' legitimate concerns, showing that the underlying thesis of the book remains as solid and timely as ever. Book Magazine From the minuteman to the frontiersman, the presence of the gun has often been perceived as an essential part of the American experience. Yet after combing through thousands of historical documents from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Emory University historian Bellesiles mounts a very credible case against the popular notion that suggests we were, since the first days of the revolution, a nation of gun owners. Bellesiles argues that, "at no time prior to 1850 did more than a tenth of the people own guns." It was only as the firearm industry grew that the need for firearms increased. Both the Civil War and deceptive advertising by gun manufacturers exacerbated the need to own a gun, so only by 1870 could one more accurately refer to a "gun culture." Thoroughly researched, when all of Bellesiles' findings are assembled and put in their proper perspective, there is little left standing to maintain the romantic notion of the gun as a symbol of American greatness or freedom. Rob Stout Biography: Michael A. Bellesiles is Professor of History at Emory University and Director of Emory's Center for the Study of Violence. He is the author of Revolutionary Outlaws: Ethan Allen and the Struggle for Independence on the Early American Frontier, and of numerous articles and reviews. He lives in Atlanta.
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