Thundersticks : : Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America / / 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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (360 p.) :; 28 halftones, 1 map |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- A Note on Terminology, Style, and Citation
- Introduction. What Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull Knew
- 1. Launching the Indian Arms Race
- 2. A Vicious Commerce. Slaves and Alliance for Guns
- 3. Recoil. The Fatal Quest for Arms during King Philip’s War
- 4. Indian Gunmen Against the British Empire
- 5. Otters for Arms
- 6. The Seminoles Resist Removal
- 7. Indian Gunrunners in a Wild West
- 8. The Rise and Fall of the Centaur Gunmen
- Epilogue AIM Raises the Rifle
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index