02567cam a2200325 a 45000010005000000030006000050050017000110080041000280100017000690200015000860350023001010400028001240420014001520430012001660500023001780820020002011000027002212450086002482600040003343000024003745000116003985040051005145050505005655200794010706500048018648560097019128560075020098560089020848560068021732741FISKH20240611155934.0000630s2000    nyu      b    001 0 eng d  a   00106191   a0375402101  a(OCoLC)ocm44947512  aNPLcNPLdAABdNORdDLC  alccopycat  an-us---00aHV8059b.B395 200000a683.4/009732211 aBellesiles, Michael A.10aArming America :bthe origins of a national gun culture /cMichael A. Bellesiles.  aNew York :bAlfred A. Knopf,c2000.  a603 pages :c25 cm.  aThis book serves as a rare example of a discredited non-fiction item by a once respected contemporary academic.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.00tIn search of guns --gch. 1.tEuropean gun heritage --gch. 2.tRole of guns in the conquest of North America --gch. 3.tGuns in the daily life of colonial America --gch. 4.tCreation of the first American gun culture : Indians and firearms --gch. 5.tBrown Bess in the wilderness --gch. 6.tPeople numerous and unarmed --gch. 7.tGovernment promotion of gun production --gch. 8.tFrom indifference to disdain --gch. 9.tCreation of a gun subculture --gch. 10.tArming of the American people.  aArming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture is a discredited 2000 book by historian Michael A. Bellesiles about American gun culture, an expansion of a 1996 article he published in the Journal of American History. Bellesiles, then a professor at Emory University, used fabricated research to argue that during the early period of US history, guns were uncommon during peacetime and that a culture of gun ownership did not arise until the mid-nineteenth century.

Although the book was awarded the prestigious Bancroft Prize in 2001, it later became the first work for which the prize was rescinded, following a decision of Columbia University's Board of Trustees that Bellesiles had "violated basic norms of scholarship and the high standards expected of Bancroft Prize winners." 0aFirearms ownershipzUnited StatesxHistory.423Contributor biographical informationuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random052/00106191.html413Sample textuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random042/00106191.html423Publisher descriptionuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random044/00106191.html423Book review (H-Net)uhttp://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0c1c2-aa