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The Samurai, the Mountie, and the Cowboy

Author : David B. Kopel
Publisher : Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Samurai, the Mountie, and the Cowboy written by David B. Kopel and published by Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gun control remains one of the hottest topics on America's agenda. Increased violence, gang wars in metropolitan areas, and the prevalence of guns in the United States frequently bring this debate to new crescendos of public concern. How can we find answers that maintain safety while protecting individual liberty? The Samurai, The Mountie, and The Cowboy offers a compelling look at how other democracies have attempted to solve their own gun problems, and what we can learn from these countries.

The Mythic Meanings of the Second Amendment

Author : David C. Williams
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300127553
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Mythic Meanings of the Second Amendment written by David C. Williams and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Williams offers a new reading of the Second Amendment suggesting that it guarantees to individuals a right to arms only insofar as they are part of a united & consensual people so that their uprising can be a unified revolution rather than a civil war.

Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gun Crusaders

Author : Scott Melzer
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814764509
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Gun Crusaders written by Scott Melzer and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses National Rifle Association materials, meetings, leader speeches, and interviews with NRA members to examine how the organization perceives threats to gun rights as an attack in a broad culture war that will ultimately lead to gun confiscation and socialism.

Social Problems in a Free Society

Author : Myles J. Kelleher
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761829249
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book Social Problems in a Free Society written by Myles J. Kelleher and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2004 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The future of the sociologist's profession is jeopardized by an ongoing trend toward the politicization of sociology and the radicalization of social problems. This book calls for the rethinking of the culture of social, political, and economic liberty to create a resurgence of a sociological agenda. Social Problems in a Free Society offers an original perspective on social problems such as violations of the principles of individual rights and the free market. This book is a vision for reinvigorating the discipline in a fashion undreamt of within the wearisome strains of today's radical social problems theory.

American West

Author : Karen R. Jones
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748629734
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book American West written by Karen R. Jones and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American West used to be a story of gunfights, glory, wagon trails, and linear progress. Historians such as Frederick Jackson Turner and Hollywood movies such as Stagecoach (1939) and Shane (1953) cast the trans-Mississippi region as a frontier of epic proportions where 'savagery' met 'civilization' and boys became men.During the late 1980s, this old way of seeing the West came under heavy fire. Scholars such as Patricia Nelson Limerick and Richard White forged a fresh story of the region, a new vision of the West, based around the conquest of peoples and landscapes.This book explores the bipolar world of Turner's Old West and Limerick's New West and reveals the values and ambiguities associated with both historical traditions. Sections on Lewis and Clark, the frontier and the cowboy sit alongside work on Indian genocide and women's trail diaries. Images of the region as seen through the arcade Western, Hollywood film and Disney theme parks confirm the West as a symbolic and contested landscape.Tapping into popular fascination with the Cowboy, Hollywood movies, the Indian Wars, and Custer's Last Stand, the authors show the reader how to deconstruct the imagery and reality surrounding Western history.Key Features*Uses popular subjects (the Cowboy, Hollywood westerns, the Indian Wars, and Custer's Last Stand) to enliven the text*Includes 13 b+w illustrations*Interdisciplinary approach covers film, literature, art and historical artefacts

Guns in American Society [3 volumes]

Author : Gregg Lee Carter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1344 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Guns in American Society [3 volumes] written by Gregg Lee Carter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 1344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly updated and greatly expanded from its original edition, this three-volume set is the go-to comprehensive resource on the legal, social, psychological, political, and public health aspects of guns in American life. The landmark 2002 edition of Guns in American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture, and the Law was acclaimed for helping readers get beyond the sometimes overheated rhetoric and navigate the overwhelming amount of unbiased academic research on gun-related issues. Now, in light of the steady rate of gun violence and several high-profile shooting incidents, this extraordinary three-volume work returns in a timely and thoroughly updated edition. With over 100 new entries, the latest edition of Guns in American Society is the most current resource available on all aspects of the gun issue, including rates of violence, gun control, gun rights, regulations and legislation, court decisions, pro- and anti-gun organizations, gun ownership, hunters and collectors, public opinion toward guns, and much more. With expert contributions from the fields of criminology, history, law, medicine, politics, and social science, it gives students, journalists, policymakers, and researchers a foundation for their own investigations, while helping readers of all kinds make decisions as family members, potential gun owners, and voters.

Guns in American Society [3 volumes]

Author : Jaclyn Schildkraut
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440867747
Total Pages : 1188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Guns in American Society [3 volumes] written by Jaclyn Schildkraut and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-12-01 with total page 1188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revised third edition of the landmark Guns in American Society provides an authoritative and objective survey of the history and current state of all gun-related issues and areas of debate in the United States. Guns in American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture, and the Law is a comprehensive and evenhanded three-volume reference resource for understanding all of the political, legal, and cultural factors that have swirled around gun rights and gun control in America, past and present. The encyclopedia draws on a vast array of research in criminology, history, law, medicine, politics, and social science. It covers all aspects of the issue: gun violence, including mass shootings in schools and other public spaces; gun control arguments and organizations; gun rights arguments and organizations; the firearms industry; firearms regulation, legislation, and court decisions; gun subcultures (for example, hunters and collectors); leading opinion-shapers on both sides of the gun debate; technological innovations in firearm manufacturing; various types of firearms, from handguns to assault weapons; and evolving public attitudes toward guns. Many of these entries place the topics in both historical and cross-cultural perspective.

Gun Women

Author : Mary Zeiss Stange
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814797600
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Gun Women written by Mary Zeiss Stange and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stange and Oyster (religion and women's studies, Skidmore College and psychology, U. of Wisconsin-LaCrosse, respectively) describe their personal relationships to guns, express appreciation for the beauty and skill of shooting, and excoriate the hyperbole on either side of the debate over guns. While asserting the feminist aspects of gun ownership in slightly more nuanced terms than usual, the volume is perhaps too dependent on anecdote to answer the philosophical, psychological, and political questions it engages. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Shooters

Author : Abigail A. Kohn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195348675
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Shooters written by Abigail A. Kohn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frequenting gun shops and shooting ranges, and devoting particular attention to those whose interest in weaponry extends beyond the casual, Abigail A. Kohn captures in finegrained and often entertaining, yet always humane, detail how gun owners actually think and feel about their guns. Through her conversations--with cowboy action shooters at a regional match, sport shooters, hunters, with shooters of all ages and races--we hear of the "savage beauty" of a beautifully crafted long gun, of the powerful historical import owners attach to their guns, of the sense of empowerment that comes with shooting skill, and the visceral thrill of discharging a dangerous weapon. Cutting through the cliches that link gun ownership with violent, criminal subcultures and portray shooters as "gun nuts" or potential terrorists, Kohn provides us with a lively and untainted portrait of American gun enthusiasts.

Democracy with a Gun

Author : Fumio Matsuo
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458761800
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book Democracy with a Gun written by Fumio Matsuo and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the author's experiences growing up in wartime Japan and his forty years covering the United States, Democracy with a Gun traces America's current position as the world's sole superpower. Discussions of influential American leaders, the Second Amendment, the Civil War, the dropping of the atomic bomb, the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, and aggressive foreign policies suggest a nation willing to act unilaterally to secure and impose its lofty goals of peace and freedom. This timely and important work offers a perspective from abroad rarely provided by the usual media pundits. Democracy with a Gun was first published in Japanese in 2004 and won the 52nd Annual Award of the Japan Essayist Club.

The Japanese Way of Justice

Author : David Ted Johnson
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 019511986X
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book The Japanese Way of Justice written by David Ted Johnson and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2002 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The major achievements of Japanese criminal justice are thus inextricably intertwined with its most notable defects, and efforts to fix the defects threaten to undermine the accomplishments."--BOOK JACKET.

The California Republic

Author : Brian P. Janiskee
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742532519
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book The California Republic written by Brian P. Janiskee and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in The California Republic explore the evolution of Progressivism in California and also its contemporary policy consequences. Designed to work in tandem with other texts or as a stand-alone reader, the book examines themes ranging from founding principles to institutions, from local government to statesmanship, and from elections to policy analysis. By daring to use a variety of approaches, these essays lead to a greater understanding of the polity of the nation's largest state and a deeper appreciation of the nature of republican government.

Gun Control and Gun Rights

Author : Andrew J. McClurg
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814747604
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Gun Control and Gun Rights written by Andrew J. McClurg and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2002-06 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showcasing viewpoints from all sides of the gun control debate, this is a balanced gun policy textbook for undergraduates, graduate students, law students and the general public. It includes selections from legal cases, hunting stories, public policy briefs and journalistic accounts

Geoproperty

Author : Geoff Demarest
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135255296
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Geoproperty written by Geoff Demarest and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some innovations create new strategic property and new conflicts. Demarest argues that we have not reached the end of history and modern man will continue to fight over property as before, but the property will be of a post-modern character, such as electronic wavelengths and genetic codes.

Open Fire

Author : Charles Springwood
Publisher : Berg
ISBN 13 : 1847883273
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book Open Fire written by Charles Springwood and published by Berg. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guns are everywhere: three quarters of a billion guns - from pistols to machine guns - exist in the world today. And guns are everything: a hard-won symbol of individual freedom, an index of crime and disorder, a whole industry legitimately contributing to an economy, a popular piece of sports equipment, and an object of desire, endlessly duplicated by toys, video games and films. Open Fire presents a broad analysis of the social, cultural and political significance of firearms and the worlds they create. Illustrated with a wide range of case material - from North and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa - Open Fire explores and questions this global icon of our times. Why do guns proliferate? What does it mean to shoot or to be shot? Who owns guns and who does not? How is a firearm, a manufactured thing, very different from any other object? Is there such a thing as a "gun psychology"? How are firearms regarded in places where they are largely non-existent? Is a gun a different thing when held by a white man?

Tragedy in Aurora

Author : Tom Diaz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538123444
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Tragedy in Aurora written by Tom Diaz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tragedy in Aurora is about the 2012 murder of budding sports journalist Jessica (Jessi) Redfield Ghawi in a public mass shooting, and the widening circle of pain it inflicted on her family, friends, police, medical first responders, and others. The book is at the same time a deep examination of the causes and potential cures of the quintessential 21st century American sickness—public mass shootings. At the heart of that examination is an unpacking of America’s deep polarization and political gridlock. It addresses head on the question of why? Why is American gun violence so different from other countries? Why does nothing seem to change? The “Parkland kids” inspired hope of change. But the ultimate questions stubbornly remain—what should, what can, and what will Americans do to reduce gun violence? Tragedy in Aurora argues that the answer lies in a conscious cultural redefinition of American civic order. Over recent decades, America has defined a cultural “new normal” about guns and gun violence. Americans express formalistic dismay after every public mass shooting. But many accept gun violence as an inevitable, even necessary, and to some laudable part of what it means to be “American.” Although Americans claim to be shocked with each new outrage, so far they have failed to coalesce around an effective way to reduce gun death and injury. The debate is bogged down in polarized and profoundly ideological political and cultural argument. Meanwhile, America continues to lead the globe in its pandemic levels of gun deaths and injuries. Combined with the cynical “learned helplessness” of its politicians, the result is gridlock and a growing roll of victims of carnage. Is there a path out of this cultural and political gridlock? Tragedy in Aurora argues that if America is to reduce gun violence it must expand the debate and confront the fundamental question of “who are we?” Tom Diaz gives a new understanding of American culture and the potential for change offered by the growing number and ongoing organization of victims and survivors of gun violence. Without conscious cultural change, the book argues, there is little prospect of effective laws or public policy to reduce gun violence in general and public mass shootings in particular.