Armed America
Subtitle: The Remarkable Story of How and Why Guns Became as American as Apple Pie
Publisher: Nelson Current, a subsidiary of Thomas Nelson, Inc.
Published: January 16, 2007
Place of publication: Nashville, TN
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781595550699
Subjects: Politics/International Relations; Popular Culture; Weapons (Police Science); Social Science; History - U.S.; Politics / Current Events; Sociology; United States; Political Freedom & Security - Law Enforcement; United States - General; Political Science / General; History; Customs & Traditions; Violence in Society; Firearms ownership
Table of contents: title: Creating a useable past : Michael Bellesiles and revisionist history; title: Part one : Colonial America.; title: A lonely outpost : militias in colonial America; title: Threatening shadows : guns in the hands of the other; title: Uneasy alliances : guns and Indians; title: Guns in official records and personal narrative; title: Intent to kill : man against man and man against nature; title: Part two : The shot heard 'round the world.; title: Guns in revolutionary New England; title: Guns in the revolutionary middle colonies; title: Guns in the revolutionary South; title: Guns in the Continental Army & revolutionary militias; title: Part three : The early Republic.; title: Militias in the early Republic; title: Ammunition in the early Republic; title: Pistols in the early Republic; title: Guns and sport in the early Republic; title: Guns and violence in the early Republic; title: Epilogue; title: Appendix : Firearms glossary; title: Bibliography; title: About the author