"A funny, raucous, eye-opening, wholly non-partisan trip in search of Americans who love their guns"--
"A funny, raucous, eye-opening, wholly non-partisan trip in search of Americans who love their guns"--
"A funny, raucous, eye-opening, wholly non-partisan trip in search of Americans who love their guns."
"A funny, raucous, eye-opening, wholly non-partisan trip in search of Americans who love their guns"--
"A funny, raucous, eye-opening, wholly non-partisan trip in search of Americans who love their guns"--
"The politics of gun policy in the United States are dramatic. Against the backdrop of daily gun violence-which claims more than 33,000 lives per year-gun control groups push for stronger regulations, while gun rights groups resist infringements upon their Second Amendment right…
Firearms and the history of technology in Africa -- Power and international trade in the savanna -- The domestication of the musket on the Upper Zambezi -- The warlord's muskets : the political economy of Garenganze -- Gun societies undone? The effects of British and Belgian rul…
Why did some central African peoples embrace gun technology in the nineteenth century, and other turn their backs on it? In answering this question, The Gun in Central Africa offers a thorough reassessment of the history of firearms in central Africa. Marrying the insights of Af…
Examining the history of warfare and political development through a technological lens, Macola relates the study of military technology to the history of gender.
Provides a history of firearm ownership in the United States, from the use of muskets by early settlers at Jamestown to the purchase of guns today, and offers the author's take on gun culture through personal anecdotes.
Provides a history of firearm ownership in the United States, from the use of muskets by early settlers at Jamestown to the purchase of guns today, and offers the author's take on gun culture through personal anecdotes.
A former Navy SEAL examines the most important American firearms, using these guns as a window on United States history to prove that the American story has been tied to and shaped by the gun.
In "American Gun", the deadliest sniper in U.S. history tracks down and shoots the most important American firearms, from a flintlock rifle to a Colt revolver to the latest high-tech weapon he used as a SEAL. Chris Kyle uses these guns as a window on United States history, makin…