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Author : William Keith Neal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780950884202
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (842 download)
Download or read book Great British Gunmakers written by William Keith Neal and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lois G. Schwoerer
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813938600
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Gun Culture in Early Modern England written by Lois G. Schwoerer and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2016-05-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guns had an enormous impact on the social, economic, cultural, and political lives of civilian men, women, and children of all social strata in early modern England. In this study, Lois Schwoerer identifies and analyzes England’s domestic gun culture from 1500 to 1740, uncovering how guns became available, what effects they had on society, and how different sectors of the population contributed to gun culture. The rise of guns made for recreational use followed the development of a robust gun industry intended by King Henry VIII to produce artillery and handguns for war. Located first in London, the gun industry brought the city new sounds, smells, street names, shops, sights, and communities of gun workers, many of whom were immigrants. Elite men used guns for hunting, target shooting, and protection. They collected beautifully decorated guns, gave them as gifts, and included them in portraits and coats-of-arms, regarding firearms as a mark of status, power, and sophistication. With statutes and proclamations, the government legally denied firearms to subjects with an annual income under £100—about 98 percent of the population—whose reactions ranged from grudging acceptance to willful disobedience. Schwoerer shows how this domestic gun culture influenced England’s Bill of Rights in 1689, a document often cited to support the claim that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution conveys the right to have arms as an Anglo-American legacy. Schwoerer shows that the Bill of Rights did not grant a universal right to have arms, but rather a right restricted by religion, law, and economic standing, terms that reflected the nation's gun culture. Examining everything from gunmakers’ records to wills, and from period portraits to toy guns, Gun Culture in Early Modern England offers new data and fresh insights on the place of the gun in English society.
Author : Priya Satia
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735221871
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Empire of Guns written by Priya Satia and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2018 BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE AND SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE By a prize-winning young historian, an authoritative work that reframes the Industrial Revolution, the expansion of British empire, and emergence of industrial capitalism by presenting them as inextricable from the gun trade "A fascinating and important glimpse into how violence fueled the industrial revolution, Priya Satia's book stuns with deep scholarship and sparkling prose."--Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies We have long understood the Industrial Revolution as a triumphant story of innovation and technology. Empire of Guns, a rich and ambitious new book by award-winning historian Priya Satia, upends this conventional wisdom by placing war and Britain's prosperous gun trade at the heart of the Industrial Revolution and the state's imperial expansion. Satia brings to life this bustling industrial society with the story of a scandal: Samuel Galton of Birmingham, one of Britain's most prominent gunmakers, has been condemned by his fellow Quakers, who argue that his profession violates the society's pacifist principles. In his fervent self-defense, Galton argues that the state's heavy reliance on industry for all of its war needs means that every member of the British industrial economy is implicated in Britain's near-constant state of war. Empire of Guns uses the story of Galton and the gun trade, from Birmingham to the outermost edges of the British empire, to illuminate the nation's emergence as a global superpower, the roots of the state's role in economic development, and the origins of our era's debates about gun control and the "military-industrial complex" -- that thorny partnership of government, the economy, and the military. Through Satia's eyes, we acquire a radically new understanding of this critical historical moment and all that followed from it. Sweeping in its scope and entirely original in its approach, Empire of Guns is a masterful new work of history -- a rigorous historical argument with a human story at its heart.
Author : George D. Moller
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 082634996X
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)
Download or read book American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume I written by George D. Moller and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume I: Colonial and Revolutionary War Arms focuses on the arms used from the early exploratory period throughout the colonial period and the American Revolution. Arranged chronologically, it contains definitive descriptions of the pre-flintlock and flintlock shoulder arms used in North America and detailed accounts of the development and progression of military regulation shoulder arms of the major colonial powers from the early eighteenth century through the Revolutionary War. Lavishly illustrated with more than four hundred vivid photographs of muskets, rifles, carbines, and other arms, this book offers an intelligent analysis of the shoulder arms procured and used by the colonists, colonial and state governments, and the Continental Congress.
Author : Edward Town
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300254105
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Marking Time written by Edward Town and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging, encyclopedic account of the material world of early modern Britain as told through a unique collection of dated objects The period from 1500 to 1800 in England was one of extraordinary social transformations, many having to do with the way time itself was understood, measured, and recorded. Through a focused exploration of an extensive private collection of fine and decorative artworks, this beautifully designed volume explores that theme and the variety of ways that individual notions of time and mortality shifted. The feature uniting these more than 450 varied objects is that each one bears a specific date, which marks a significant moment—for reasons personal or professional, religious or secular, private or public. From paintings to porringers, teapots to tape measures, the objects—and the stories they tell—offer a vivid sense of the lived experience of time, while providing a sweeping survey of the material world of early modern Britain.
Author : Melinda S. Zook
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317168763
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Challenging Orthodoxies: The Social and Cultural Worlds of Early Modern Women written by Melinda S. Zook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a broad and eclectic approach to the experience and activities of early modern women, Challenging Orthodoxies presents new research from a group of leading voices in their respective fields. Each essay confronts some received wisdom, ’truth’ or orthodoxy in social and cultural, scientific and intellectual, and political and legal traditions, to demonstrate how women from a range of social classes could challenge the conventional thinking of their time as well as the ways in which they have been traditionally portrayed by scholars. Subjects include women's relationship to guns and gunpowder, the law and legal discourse, religion, public finances, and the new science in early modern Europe, as well as women and indentured servitude in the New World. A testament to the pioneering work of Hilda L. Smith, this collection makes a valuable contribution to scholarship in women’s studies, political science, history, religion and literature.
Author : Albert John Walford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781856041379
Total Pages : 1182 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (413 download)
Download or read book Walford's Guide to reference material. written by Albert John Walford and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 1182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arms and Armour Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Arms and Armour written by Arms and Armour Society and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ken Warner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780873490016
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Gun Digest written by Ken Warner and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marilyn Mullay
Publisher : Library Association Publishing (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1068 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Walford's Guide to Reference Material written by Marilyn Mullay and published by Library Association Publishing (UK). This book was released on 1989 with total page 1068 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **** The British counterpart to Sheehy (in which it is recommended--and vice versa), distributed in the US by Unipub. Volume 3 completes the 5th edition with 8,833 entries (vol. 1:Science and technology, 1989, 5,995 entries; vol.2: Social and historical sciences, philosophy and religion, 1990, 7,166 entries). While the majority of items are reference books, Walford is a guide to reference material and therefore includes periodical articles, microforms, online, and CD-ROM sources. A special effort has been made to make sure the output of small and specialist presses is not neglected. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Annual Bibliography of British and Irish History written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Albert John Walford
Publisher : London : Library Association Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Walford's Guide to Reference Material: Generalia, language and literature, the arts written by Albert John Walford and published by London : Library Association Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wallace B. Gusler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Decorated Firearms, 1540-1870, from the Collection of Clay P. Bedford written by Wallace B. Gusler and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Library Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Albert John Walford
Publisher : Library Association Publishing (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1180 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Walford's Guide to Reference Material: Generalia, language & literature, the arts written by Albert John Walford and published by Library Association Publishing (UK). This book was released on 1993 with total page 1180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has achieved international recognition as a reference tool and a "one-stop" daily information source. This new edition features many topics, and is indispensable to librarians and information professionals revising reference collections, etc.
Author : Ken Warner
Publisher : DBI Books
ISBN 13 : 9780873491051
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Gun Digest, 1991 written by Ken Warner and published by DBI Books. This book was released on 1990-07 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur James Wells
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1706 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
