Armed America : the remarkable story of how and why guns became as American as apple pie /: the remarkable story of how and why guns became as American as apple pie. (2006)
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- Book
- Title:
- Armed America : the remarkable story of how and why guns became as American as apple pie /: the remarkable story of how and why guns became as American as apple pie. (2006)
- Main Title:
- Armed America : the remarkable story of how and why guns became as American as apple pie
- Other Titles:
- Remarkable story of how and why guns became as American as apple pie
- Further Information:
- Note: Clayton E. Cramer.
- Other Names:
- Cramer, Clayton E
- Contents:
- Guns in American history -- Colonial America -- A lonely outpost : militias in colonial America -- Threatening shadows : guns in the hands of the other -- Uneasy alliances : guns and Indians -- Guns in official records and personal narrative -- Intent to kill : man against man and man against nature -- The shot heard 'round the world -- Guns in revolutionary New England -- Guns in the revolutionary middle colonies -- Guns in the revolutionary South -- Guns in the Continental Army & revolutionary militias -- The early Republic -- Militias in the early Republic -- Ammunition in the early Republic -- Pistols in the early Republic -- Guns and sport in the early Republic -- Guns and violence in the early Republic -- Epilogue -- Appendix: firearms glossary.
- Publisher Details:
- Nashville, Tenn : Nelson Current
- Publication Date:
- 2006
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (xx, 300 pages), illustrations
- Subjects:
- 363.330973
Firearms ownership -- United States -- History
Firearms ownership
United States
Electronic books
History - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781418551872
1418551872 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781595550699
1595550690
9781595552846
1595552847 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-256).
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.297675
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