Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America Tapa dura - 2016

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Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, October 2016. Hardcover. Used.

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Hardback. New. David Silverman argues against the notion that Indians prized flintlock muskets more for their pyrotechnics than for their efficiency as tools of war. Native peoples fully recognized the potential of firearms to assist them in their struggles against colonial forces, and mostly against one another, as arms races erupted across North America.

Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016. hardcover. as new/as new. 6 3/8 x 9 1/2 " 371 pages.

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Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America by David J. Silverman
The adoption of firearms by American Indians between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries marked a turning point in the history of North America's indigenous peoples -- a cultural earthquake so profound, says David Silverman, that its impact has yet to be adequately measured. Thundersticks reframes our understanding of Indians' historical relationship with guns, arguing against the notion that they prized these weapons more for the pyrotechnic terror they inspired than for their efficiency as tools of war. Native peoples fully recognized the potential of firearms to assist them in their struggles against colonial forces, and mostly against one another.
The smooth-bore, flintlock musket was Indians' stock firearm, and its destructive potential transformed their lives. For the deer hunters east of the Mississippi, the gun evolved into an essential hunting tool. Most importantly, well-armed tribes were able… Leer más

Belknap Pr, 2016. Hardcover. New. 371 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches.

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