Arming America: the Origins of a National Gun Culture
- List Price: $30.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
- Publish date: 02/01/2006
Bellesiles shows that there was a huge surge of interest in hunting in the 1820s and 30s on the part of urban middle-class and elite men, and in the 30s the word "manly" increasingly became linked with gun use. During the 1840s violence increased as well, especially violence inspired by slavery and racism in general. By the mid-1850s technological advances, such as Colt's revolver and Smith & Wesson's repeating revolver with self-contained bullets, contributed to a surge of gun manufacturing. But it was the soaring gun production and the industrialization encouraged by the Civil War era -- and the decision to allow soldiers to keep their weapons at the end of the war -- that transformed the gun from a seldom-needed tool to a perceived necessity and fostered an emotional connection between man and weapon.
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