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Arming America Michael Bellesiles
Soft Skull, lst, 2003,604 pages
Softcover in good+ condition, NO dust jacket
Text is clean an unmarked, binding is tight.
Cover is in good+ condition see photo
Bellesiles has taken what we know about guns in America, and examining the historical record shatters the myth of the “Gun-toting American”. Major research of numbers of guns in American from 1800 is listed by state. 128 pages of footnotes on his sources, how the use of guns surged in the mid 1800's. How the gun came to be considers a necessity after the Civil War, how world wars affected the status of the gun and how we have arrived at where we are today.
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