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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Haag, Pamela, author.     Subjects     Firearms -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.     Firearms industry and trade -- United States -- History.     Capitalism -- United States -- History.     United States -- Social conditions.     United States -- Economic conditions.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Haag, Pamela, author.       by title:      The gunning of Ameri...         MARC Display

The gunning of America [electronic resource] : business and the making of American gun culture / Pamela Haag. by Haag, Pamela, author. New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, c2016. Subjects Firearms -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.   Firearms industry and trade -- United States -- History.   Capitalism -- United States -- History.   United States -- Social conditions.   United States -- Economic conditions. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=BC8CDE14-2511-4CFC-BC57-B0B45514EBE6 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/1486-1/{BC8CDE14-2511-4CFC-BC57-B0B45514EBE6}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9780465098569 (electronic bk.) 0465098568 (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource (xxv, 496 pages) : illustrations. Contents:  Introduction: The Art and Mystery of a Gunsmith -- The American System -- The Crystal Palace -- Scattering Our Guns -- More Wonderful Than Practical -- Model 186600 -- Gun Men and the Oriental Lecturer -- Spirit Guns -- The Unhallowed Trade -- The "Moral Effect" of a Winchester -- Balancing the Ledger -- Summer Land -- The Gun Industry's Visible Hand -- Learning to Love the Gun -- Mystery House -- Grotesque, Yet Magnificent -- Overbuilding -- The Soul of the "Gun Crank" -- King of Infinite Space -- The West that Won the Gun -- Merchants of Death -- Epilogue. Requests:  0 Summary:  "An acclaimed historian explodes the myth about the 'special relationship' between Americans and their guns, revealing that savvy 19th century businessmen--not gun lovers--created American gun culture"--   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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