Author: M. L. Brown
Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
FIREARMS IN COLONIAL AMER
Author: M. L. Brown
Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Arming America
Author: Michael A. Bellesiles
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Firearms ownership
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Firearms ownership
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Rifles of Colonial America
Author: George Shumway
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780873870795
Category : Firearms
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780873870795
Category : Firearms
Languages : en
Pages :
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Arms and Armor in Colonial America, 1526-1783
Author: Harold Leslie Peterson
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486412443
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Finest single-volume survey of Colonial weaponry covers firearms, ammunition, edged weapons, and armor. Over 300 illus.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486412443
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Finest single-volume survey of Colonial weaponry covers firearms, ammunition, edged weapons, and armor. Over 300 illus.
Guns on the Early Frontiers
Author: Carl Parcher Russell
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803238572
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803238572
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Guns Across America
Author: Robert J. Spitzer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019022858X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A fascinating tour through the history of one of America's most controversial issues: gun control
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019022858X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A fascinating tour through the history of one of America's most controversial issues: gun control
Thundersticks
Author: David J. Silverman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674974743
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The adoption of firearms by American Indians between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries marked a turning point in the history of North America’s indigenous peoples—a cultural earthquake so profound, says David Silverman, that its impact has yet to be adequately measured. Thundersticks reframes our understanding of Indians’ historical relationship with guns, arguing against the notion that they prized these weapons more for the pyrotechnic terror guns inspired than for their efficiency as tools of war. Native peoples fully recognized the potential of firearms to assist them in their struggles against colonial forces, and mostly against one another. The smoothbore, flintlock musket was Indians’ stock firearm, and its destructive potential transformed their lives. For the deer hunters east of the Mississippi, the gun evolved into an essential hunting tool. Most importantly, well-armed tribes were able to capture and enslave their neighbors, plunder wealth, and conquer territory. Arms races erupted across North America, intensifying intertribal rivalries and solidifying the importance of firearms in Indian politics and culture. Though American tribes grew dependent on guns manufactured in Europe and the United States, their dependence never prevented them from rising up against Euro-American power. The Seminoles, Blackfeet, Lakotas, and others remained formidably armed right up to the time of their subjugation. Far from being a Trojan horse for colonialism, firearms empowered American Indians to pursue their interests and defend their political and economic autonomy over two centuries.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674974743
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The adoption of firearms by American Indians between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries marked a turning point in the history of North America’s indigenous peoples—a cultural earthquake so profound, says David Silverman, that its impact has yet to be adequately measured. Thundersticks reframes our understanding of Indians’ historical relationship with guns, arguing against the notion that they prized these weapons more for the pyrotechnic terror guns inspired than for their efficiency as tools of war. Native peoples fully recognized the potential of firearms to assist them in their struggles against colonial forces, and mostly against one another. The smoothbore, flintlock musket was Indians’ stock firearm, and its destructive potential transformed their lives. For the deer hunters east of the Mississippi, the gun evolved into an essential hunting tool. Most importantly, well-armed tribes were able to capture and enslave their neighbors, plunder wealth, and conquer territory. Arms races erupted across North America, intensifying intertribal rivalries and solidifying the importance of firearms in Indian politics and culture. Though American tribes grew dependent on guns manufactured in Europe and the United States, their dependence never prevented them from rising up against Euro-American power. The Seminoles, Blackfeet, Lakotas, and others remained formidably armed right up to the time of their subjugation. Far from being a Trojan horse for colonialism, firearms empowered American Indians to pursue their interests and defend their political and economic autonomy over two centuries.
British Military Long Arms in Colonial America
Author: Bill Ahearn
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1480950998
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
British Military Long Arms in Colonial America By: Bill Ahearn and Robert Nittolo In British Military Long Arms in Colonial America, Bill Ahearn and Robert Nittolo explore the story of the various long arms used during this point in history. Covering a vast time period, Ahearn and Nittolo first illustrate the long arms as tools to help create British rule in Colonial America and continue their explorations to the war that cost Britain their American empire. British Military Long Arms in Colonial America is an educational and informative guide that will provide an enlightening account to the curious readers and historians alike.
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1480950998
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
British Military Long Arms in Colonial America By: Bill Ahearn and Robert Nittolo In British Military Long Arms in Colonial America, Bill Ahearn and Robert Nittolo explore the story of the various long arms used during this point in history. Covering a vast time period, Ahearn and Nittolo first illustrate the long arms as tools to help create British rule in Colonial America and continue their explorations to the war that cost Britain their American empire. British Military Long Arms in Colonial America is an educational and informative guide that will provide an enlightening account to the curious readers and historians alike.
American Rifle
Author: Alexander Rose
Publisher: Delta
ISBN: 0553384384
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
George Washington insisted that his portrait be painted with one. Daniel Boone created a legend with one. Abraham Lincoln shot them on the White House lawn. And Teddy Roosevelt had his specially customized. In this first-of-its-kind book, historian Alexander Rose delivers a colorful, engrossing biography of an American icon: the rifle. Drawing on the words of foot soldiers, inventors, and presidents, based on extensive new research, and spanning from the Revolution to the present day, American Rifle is a balanced, wonderfully entertaining history of the rifle and its place in American culture.
Publisher: Delta
ISBN: 0553384384
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
George Washington insisted that his portrait be painted with one. Daniel Boone created a legend with one. Abraham Lincoln shot them on the White House lawn. And Teddy Roosevelt had his specially customized. In this first-of-its-kind book, historian Alexander Rose delivers a colorful, engrossing biography of an American icon: the rifle. Drawing on the words of foot soldiers, inventors, and presidents, based on extensive new research, and spanning from the Revolution to the present day, American Rifle is a balanced, wonderfully entertaining history of the rifle and its place in American culture.
Flintlock Fowlers
Author: Tom Grinslade
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781880655177
Category : Fowling
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781880655177
Category : Fowling
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description