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Arming America
the origins of a national gun culture
By Bellesiles, Michael A.
- ISBN
- 978-0-37540-210-4
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf : 2000.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 2000
Bellesiles (history, Emory Univ.; Revolutionary Outlaws), a historian of Colonial American violence and militarism, sets out to counter two conventional beliefs: that the gun was prevalent in Colonial America and that the tradition of the local citizens' militia is based on historic reality. The author asserts that guns, which were hard to obtain and simply did not function with any reliabi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
