Research Catalog

Title

The gunning of America : business and the making of American gun culture / Pamela Haag.

Author

Haag, Pamela

Publication

New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2016]

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Holdings

Details

Description

xxv, 496 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

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"--

Subjects

• Firearms > Social aspects
• Firearms industry and trade
• Capitalism
• HISTORY / United States / General
• Economic history
• Firearms > Social aspects > United States > History
• Social conditions
• Firearms industry and trade > United States > History
• HISTORY / Military / Weapons
• United States > Economic conditions
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
• Capitalism > United States > History
• United States > Social conditions
• History
• HISTORY / United States / 19th Century

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

"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."

ISBN

• 9780465048953 (hardcover)
• 0465048951 (hardcover)
• 9780465098569 (electronic) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2015036679
• 99968120610

OCLC

• 921864221
• ocn921864221
• SCSB-9405377

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries