Clayton E. Cramer
Auteur de Armed America: The Remarkable Story of How and Why Guns Became as American as Apple Pie
A propos de l'auteur
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(eng) Citation to his 2008 publication, Clayton and Olson, in Justice Scalia's Opinion, District of Columbia vs. Heller (2008)
Œuvres de Clayton E. Cramer
Armed America: The Remarkable Story of How and Why Guns Became as American as Apple Pie (2007) 57 exemplaires
My Brother Ron: A Personal and Social History of the Deinstitutionalization of the Mentally Ill (2012) 13 exemplaires
Firing Back: A Clear, Simple Guide to Defending Your Constitutional Right to Bear Arms (1994) 3 exemplaires
Concealed weapon laws of the early republic : dueling, southern violence, and moral reform (1999) 2 exemplaires
Historical Evidence Concerning Climate Change: Archaeological and Historical Evidence That Man Is Not the Cause (2016) 2 exemplaires
For the Defense of Themselves and the State: The Original Intent and Judicial Interpretation of the Right to Keep and… (1994) 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Sexe
- male
- Études
- Sonoma State University (MA | History | 1998)
- Organisations
- National Rifle Association
- Notice de désambigüisation
- Citation to his 2008 publication, Clayton and Olson, in Justice Scalia's Opinion, District of Columbia vs. Heller (2008)
Membres
Critiques
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 11
- Membres
- 87
- Popularité
- #211,168
- Évaluation
- 4.2
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 13
However, this book isn't just a refutation of Bellesiles. It's also an entertaining slice of early American history in its own right. Just like other books which focus on foods, this book is a "vertical history" (though shorter than many) focusing on guns over a 200-plus year slice of American history. To show that guns were common throughout the period, Cramer covers a wide variety of conflicts, from Indian wars to slave revolts to political conflict within the colonies to interpersonal conflicts between the colonists. This results in a rather broad coverage of social and political history of a period that normally gets glossed over - most school history skips from 1622 (when the Indians bailed out the Plymouth colonists) to 1756 (when the French and Indian Wars started) with just a paragraph or two reciting who established each colony and why. Due to the focus of this book, it doesn't provide broad coverage of the history of that time, but it does a lot more than most. The book also continues into the Revolutionary War, where one gets a better sense of the logistics of the war (for the battle buff, the period is otherwise well-covered, of course) as Cramer tracks down how the Continental Army and its supporting militias armed themselves. The last part of the book tracks guns through the Early Republic period, and doesn't shy away from noticing that much use of the militia away from the frontier was in chasing down escaped and rebelling slaves, but shows that militias, and guns, had far more uses than those.
Given the circumstances surrounding the writing of this book, it's understandable that it refers back to Bellesiles' book (and earlier paper) to specifically contradict the claims made. However, this would be a stronger book if all the material referring to Bellesiles and "Arming America" were tucked away in a foreword or afterword, leaving the history to stand on its own, and allowing those who are interested in the controversy to look it all up in one place without interrupting the narrative flow of this fascinating history.… (plus d'informations)