Lock, Stock, and Barrel
Praeger Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4408-6037-9 (ISBN)
Revisionist historians argue that American gun culture and manufacturing are relatively recent developments. They further claim that widespread gun violence was largely absent from early American history because guns of all types, and especially handguns, were rare before 1848. According to these revisionists, American gun culture was the creation of the first mass production gun manufacturers, who used clever marketing to sell guns to people who neither wanted nor needed them.
However, as proven in this first scholarly history of "gun culture" in early America, gun ownership and use have in fact been central to American society from its very beginnings. Lock, Stock, and Barrel: The Origins of American Gun Culture shows that gunsmithing and gun manufacturing were important parts of the economies of the colonies and the early republic and explains how the American gun industry helped to create our modern world of precision mass production and high wages for workers.
Clayton E. Cramer, MA, is adjunct faculty at College of Western Idaho, Nampa, ID. His work has been cited in court decisions including District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) and McDonald v. Chicago (2010).
Preface
Acknowledgments
A Note on Terminology
1 Gun Culture in Colonial America, 1607–1775
2 Counting Gunsmiths: Methodological Problems
3 Colonial Gunsmiths and Manufacturers, 1607–1775
4 Repairing Guns during the Revolutionary War, 1775–1783
5 Gunmaking during the Revolutionary Era, 1775–1783
6 Gun Culture in the Early Republic, 1783–1846
7 Gun Manufacturing in the Early Republic, 1783–1846
8 Federal Government Gun Contractors in the Early Republic, 1783–1846
9 State Militia Gun Contractors in the Early Republic, 1783–1846
10 How the American Gun Culture Changed the World, 1800–Present
11 The Myth of 19th-Century Gun Marketing
12 Postbellum Gun Culture, 1865–1930
13 Modern Gun Culture, 1930–Present
Epilogue: American Gun Culture: Transformative and Still Kicking
Appendix A: Gunsmiths in Early America
Appendix B: Partial List of Government Arms Contracts
Appendix C: Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 13.06.2018 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 680 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4408-6037-8 / 1440860378 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4408-6037-9 / 9781440860379 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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