Colonial Frontier Guns
Author : T. M. Hamilton
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 36,30 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Firearms
ISBN :
Author : T. M. Hamilton
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 36,30 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Firearms
ISBN :
Author : T. M. Hamilton
Publisher : Pioneer Press
Page : pages
File Size : 14,62 MB
Release : 1987-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780913150610
Author : Carl Parcher Russell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 15,89 MB
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803289031
"Here is a book for the historian, the student, the gun collector or aficionado. . . . It approaches understatement to call Guns on the Early Frontiers an outstanding contribution to firearms literature. It sets its own standard."--New York Times. "A Glossary of Gun Terms, ample footnotes most skillfully arranged and illustrations beyond the dreams of avarice complement the text, which achieves the miracle of scholarship without tedium."--W.H. Hutchinson, San Francisco Chronicle. "Not the least interesting portions of the book are the notes and glossary and the excellent bibliography. Here [is] a book designed primarily for the serious collector or gun historian, but whose readable style should appeal even to the casual amateur. The collecting of old guns, whether privately or by a public institution, involves a certain responsibility. These guns, whose history is inextricably linked with the history of settlement, require something more than careful preservations. They require--and the present volume goes far to supply--accurate documentation."--Canadian Historical Review. Carl P. Russell, a leading authority on firearms of the American frontier, was coordinator of planning for the science and history museums and other interpretive facilities of the National Park Service in the Western United States.
Author : M. L. Brown
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 40,66 MB
Release : 1980-11-17
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
Author : Nathan E. Bender
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 31,86 MB
Release : 2018-07-06
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1476632723
Symbolic ornamentation inspired by ancient Greek and Roman art is a long-standing Western tradition. The author explores the designs of 18th century English gunsmiths who engraved classical ornamental patterns on firearms gifted or traded to American Indians. A system of allegory is found that symbolized the Americas of the New World in general, and that enshrined the American Indian peoples as "noble savages." The same allegorical context was drawn upon for symbols of national liberty in the early American republic. Inadvertently, many of the symbolic designs used on the trade guns strongly resonated with several Native American spiritual traditions.
Author : David J. Silverman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 17,40 MB
Release : 2016-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0674974743
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.
Author : Michael A. Bellesiles
Publisher :
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 46,95 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Firearms ownership
ISBN :
Author : William Kelleher Storey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,24 MB
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107403963
In this book, William Kelleher Storey shows that guns and discussions about guns during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries were fundamentally important to the establishment of racial discrimination in South Africa. Relying mainly on materials held in archives and libraries in Britain and South Africa, Storey explains the workings of the gun trade and the technological development of the firearms. He relates the history of firearms to ecological, political, and social changes, showing that there is a close relationship between technology and politics in South Africa.
Author : George Raudzens
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 26,68 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780391042063
This study consists of eight essays critical of the currently dominant guns and germs theories in the historiography of European colonial conquest causes. Other methods of conquest, notably communication control, were as vital as firepower and disease importation, and motives were often more important than methods.
Author : Jan E. Dizard
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 34,51 MB
Release : 1999-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0814718787
Should you own a gun? -- Americans losing trust in each other and institutions -- Arms and the woman : a feminist reappraisal -- Guns are the tools by which we forge our liberty -- Gun control in American : a history of discimination against the poor and minorities -- Talk at Temple Beth Shir Shalom : Friday, April 30, 1993 -- Apocalypse now? -- They've had enough -- Author's call to arms gets answer -- The anti-enviro connection -- America's only realistic option : promoting responsible gun ownership -- What are the alternative? -- Lawsuit aims at gun industry -- Crime fighting's about-face -- Second thoughts on the Second Amendment -- Ten essential observations on guns in America.