TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bellesiles,Michael A.
TI  - Arming America: the origins of a national gun culture 
SN  - 0375402101
AV  - HV8059 .B395 2000
U1  - 683.4/00973 21
PY  - 2000///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - Firearms ownership
KW  - United States
KW  - History
N1  - 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
N2  - 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the book was awarded the prestigious Bancroft Prize in 2001, it later became the first work for which the prize was rescinded, following a decision of Columbia University's Board of Trustees that Bellesiles had "violated basic norms of scholarship and the high standards expected of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."
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