TY  - BOOK
AU  - Haag,Pamela
TI  - The gunning of America: capitalism and the making of American gun culture 
SN  - 9780465048953 (hardcover)
AV  - TS533.2 .H33 2016
U1  - 338.4/768340973 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
KW  - Firearms
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Firearms industry and trade
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY / United States / General
KW  - HISTORY / Military / Weapons
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Economic conditions
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: The Art and Mystery of a Gunsmith -- The American System -- The Crystal Palace -- Scattering Our Guns -- More Wonderful Than Practical -- Model 186600 -- Gun Men and the Oriental Lecturer -- Spirit Guns -- The Unhallowed Trade -- The "Moral Effect" of a Winchester -- Balancing the Ledger -- Summer Land -- The Gun Industry's Visible Hand -- Learning to Love the Gun -- Mystery House -- Grotesque, Yet Magnificent -- Overbuilding -- The Soul of the "Gun Crank" -- King of Infinite Space -- The West that Won the Gun -- Merchants of Death -- Epilogue
N2  - "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"--
ER  -