The Six-Shooter State
Title | The Six-Shooter State PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Obert |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 291 |
Release | 2018-10-18 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1108593631 |
American violence is schizophrenic. On the one hand, many Americans support the creation of a powerful bureaucracy of coercion made up of police and military forces in order to provide public security. At the same time, many of those citizens also demand the private right to protect their own families, home, and property. This book diagnoses this schizophrenia as a product of a distinctive institutional history, in which private forms of violence - vigilantes, private detectives, mercenary gunfighters - emerged in concert with the creation of new public and state forms of violence such as police departments or the National Guard. This dual public and private face of American violence resulted from the upending of a tradition of republican governance, in which public security had been indistinguishable from private effort, by the nineteenth-century social transformations of the Civil War and the Market Revolution.
The Six-Shooter State
Title | The Six-Shooter State PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Obert |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 291 |
Release | 2018-10-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1316515141 |
Public and private forms of violence have co-evolved rather than competed in America's political development since the nineteenth century.
Six-shooter Showdown
Title | Six-shooter Showdown PDF eBook |
Author | William Colt MacDonald |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 189 |
Release | 1950 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Six-shooter Country
Title | Six-shooter Country PDF eBook |
Author | Gladwell Richardson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 158 |
Release | 1956 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Six Shooter Sho
Title | Six Shooter Sho PDF eBook |
Author | Brenda Jackson |
Publisher | Signet |
Total Pages | |
Release | 1960-01-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780451011817 |
Revolver
Title | Revolver PDF eBook |
Author | Jim Rasenberger |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 448 |
Release | 2021-05-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1501166395 |
Patented in 1836, the Colt pistol with its revolving cylinder was the first practical firearm that could shoot more than one bullet without reloading. Its most immediate impact was on the expansionism of the American west, where white emigrants and US soldiers came to depend on it, and where Native Americans came to dread it. In making the revolver, Colt also changed American manufacturing, and revolutionized industry in the United States. Rasenberger brings the brazenly ambitious and profoundly innovative industrialist and leader Samuel Colt to vivid life. During an age of promise and progress, and also of slavery, corruption, and unbridled greed, Colt not only helped to create this America, he completely embodied it.-- adapted from info provided
The Six Shooter Western Anthology
Title | The Six Shooter Western Anthology PDF eBook |
Author | John Gassman |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 14 |
Release | 19?? |
Genre | Six shooter (Radio program) |
ISBN |