Gun country: gun capitalism, culture, and control in Cold War America

"Just as World War II transformed the United States into a global military and economic superpower, so too did it forge the gun country America is today. After 1945, war-ravaged European nations possessed large surpluses of mass-produced weapons, and American entrepreneurs seized the opportunit...

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Main Author: McKevitt, Andrew C. 1980- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina Press [2023]
In:Year: 2023
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505 8 0 |a The dumping ground -- Oswald's other gun -- This means war -- Civilization and guns -- The loophole -- Little old ladies in tennis shoes -- The mothers of today -- The Cold War's second amendment -- America's worst disease -- Global gun grabbers -- This American carnage. 
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