Clayton E. Cramer

Lock, Stock, and Barrel (eBook, ePUB)

The Origins of American Gun Culture

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This provocative book debunks the myth that American gun culture was intentionally created by gun makers and demonstrates that gun ownership and use have been a core part of American society since our colonial origins.

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216112563
• Artikelnr.: 68167923

Autorenporträt

CLAYTON E. CRAMER works as a software engineer for a Northern California telecommunications equipment manufacturer. He has published extensively in the areas of American history and criminology. His previous publications include Black Demographic Data, 1790-1860 (Greenwood, 1997) and For the Defense of Themselves and the State: The Original Intent and Judicial Interpretation of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (Praeger, 1994).

Inhaltsangabe

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