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The thesis of Arming America is that gun culture in the United States did not have roots in the colonial and early national period but arose during the 1850s and 1860s. The book argues that guns were uncommon during peacetime in the United States during the colonial, early national, and antebellum periods, that guns were seldom used then and that the average American's proficiency in use of ...
Clayton E. Cramer is an American amateur historian, author and gun rights activist. He played an important early role in documenting errors in the book Arming America by Michael A. Bellesiles . His work was cited by the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas in United States v.
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Loaded begins with Dunbar-Ortiz writing about her own experience with guns as a member of a radical left-wing "women’s action-study group" in 1970. She uses her own history of falling in, and then out of, love with guns to begin an exploration of the larger U.S. love-fest with guns, and where this comes from.
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Written by former Philadelphia Inquirer author Nathan Gorenstein, The Guns of John Moses Browning details the events of John Browning's life, his inventions, and their historical impact. [1] The book provides information on Browning's designs, as well as relevant aspects of his biography that impacted their creation. [ 2 ]
A Monetary History of the United States, 1867–1960 is a book written in 1963 by future Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz.It uses historical time series and economic analysis to argue the then-novel proposition that changes in the money supply profoundly influenced the United States economy, especially the behavior of economic fluctuations.