The Gunning of America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Gunning of America write by Pamela Haag. This book was released on 2016-04-19. The Gunning of America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "An acclaimed historian explodes the myth about the 'special relationship' between Americans and their guns, revealing that savvy 19th century businessmen--not gun lovers--created American gun culture"--
The Gunning of America
The Gunning of America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Gunning of America write by Pamela Haag. This book was released on 2016-04-19. The Gunning of America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Americans have always loved guns. This special bond was forged during the American Revolution and sanctified by the Second Amendment. It is because of this exceptional relationship that American civilians are more heavily armed than the citizens of any other nation. Or so we're told. In The Gunning of America, historian Pamela Haag overturns this conventional wisdom. American gun culture, she argues, developed not because the gun was exceptional, but precisely because it was not: guns proliferated in America because throughout most of the nation's history, they were perceived as an unexceptional commodity, no different than buttons or typewriters. Focusing on the history of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, one of the most iconic arms manufacturers in America, Haag challenges many basic assumptions of how and when America became a gun culture. Under the leadership of Oliver Winchester and his heirs, the company used aggressive, sometimes ingenious sales and marketing techniques to create new markets for their product. Guns have never "sold themselves"; rather, through advertising and innovative distribution campaigns, the gun industry did. Through the meticulous examination of gun industry archives, Haag challenges the myth of a primal bond between Americans and their firearms. Over the course of its 150 year history, the Winchester Repeating Arms Company sold over 8 million guns. But Oliver Winchester-a shirtmaker in his previous career-had no apparent qualms about a life spent arming America. His daughter-in-law Sarah Winchester was a different story. Legend holds that Sarah was haunted by what she considered a vast blood fortune, and became convinced that the ghosts of rifle victims were haunting her. She channeled much of her inheritance, and her conflicted conscience, into a monstrous estate now known as the Winchester Mystery House, where she sought refuge from this ever-expanding army of phantoms. In this provocative and deeply-researched work of narrative history, Haag fundamentally revises the history of arms in America, and in so doing explodes the clichéthat have created and sustained our lethal gun culture.
America, My New Home
America, My New Home - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook America, My New Home write by Monica Gunning. This book was released on 2004-11-01. America, My New Home available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From her Caribbean island birthplace, a young girl carries a dream and journeys to a new land that is at once puzzling, frightening, and inspiring. In twenty-three compelling poems, Jamaican-born poet Monica Gunning tells her immigrant's story with gentle humor, grace, and a child's sense of wonder. She describes a place where skyscrapers, rather than the moon, light the night; where people dress in woolens, ready for snow; where no one knows your name. Yet this same place offers exciting treasures: dizzying amusement park rides, stirring symphony concerts, flashy circus performers, towering cathedrals, and captivating art museums that speak to those who linger. Above all, this new land is place where "hope glows, a beacon / guiding ocean-deep dreamers / from storm surfs to shore."
Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America
Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America write by Adam Winkler. This book was released on 2011-09-19. Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A provocative history that reveals how guns—not abortion, race, or religion—are at the heart of America's cultural divide. Gunfight is a timely work examining America’s four-centuries-long political battle over gun control and the right to bear arms. In this definitive and provocative history, Adam Winkler reveals how guns—not abortion, race, or religion—are at the heart of America’s cultural divide. Using the landmark 2008 case District of Columbia v. Heller—which invalidated a law banning handguns in the nation’s capital—as a springboard, Winkler brilliantly weaves together the dramatic stories of gun-rights advocates and gun-control lobbyists, providing often unexpected insights into the venomous debate that now cleaves our nation.
A Shelter in Our Car
A Shelter in Our Car - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Shelter in Our Car write by Monica Gunning. This book was released on 2014-05. A Shelter in Our Car available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since she left Jamaica for America after her father died, Zettie lives in a car with her mother while they both go to school and plan for a real home.
