02680cam a2200361 a 4500 2741 FISKH 20240611155934.0 000630s2000 nyu b 001 0 eng d 00106191 0375402101 (OCoLC)ocm44947512 NPL NPL AAB NOR DLC lccopycat n-us--- HV8059 .B395 2000 683.4/00973 21 Bellesiles, Michael A. Arming America : the origins of a national gun culture / Michael A. Bellesiles. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. 603 pages : 25 cm. This book serves as a rare example of a discredited non-fiction item by a once respected contemporary academic. Includes bibliographical references and index. In search of guns -- ch. 1. European gun heritage -- ch. 2. Role of guns in the conquest of North America -- ch. 3. Guns in the daily life of colonial America -- ch. 4. Creation of the first American gun culture : Indians and firearms -- ch. 5. Brown Bess in the wilderness -- ch. 6. People numerous and unarmed -- ch. 7. Government promotion of gun production -- ch. 8. From indifference to disdain -- ch. 9. Creation of a gun subculture -- ch. 10. Arming of the American people. Arming 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the book was awarded the prestigious Bancroft Prize in 2001, it later became the first work for which the prize was rescinded, following a decision of Columbia University's Board of Trustees that Bellesiles had "violated basic norms of scholarship and the high standards expected of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." Firearms ownership United States History. Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random052/00106191.html Sample text http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random042/00106191.html Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random044/00106191.html Book review (H-Net) http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0c1c2-aa 7 cbc copycat 2 ncip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 0 2741 2741 0 0 lcc 0 0 NFIC 001 001 REF 2024-01-11 0 BEL 683.400973 HV8059.B395 2024-0023 2024-01-11 15:30:49 2024-01-11 BK