Weapons of Mississippi [electronic resource] / Kevin Dougherty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dougherty, Kevin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Weapons--Mississippi--History.

Weapons.

Mississippi--History.

Mississippi.

Mississippi--History, Military.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 p.)

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Mississippians have long found the need for an arsenal of interesting, lethal, and imaginative weapons. Native Americans, frontier outlaws, antebellum duelists, authorities and protestors in the civil rights struggle, and present-day hunters have used weapons to survive, to advance causes, or to levy societal control. In Weapons of Mississippi , Kevin Dougherty examines the roles weapons have played in twelve phases of state history. Dougherty not only offers technical background for these devices, but he also presents a new way of understanding the state's history-through the context and deve

Contents:

Atlatls, bows and arrows, and striking weapons : weapons of the Mississippi Indians

Guns, steel, and forts : weapons of the Europeans in Mississippi

Militias, outlaws, and Kentucky rifles : weapons of territorial Mississippi

Dueling and slavery : weapons of antebellum Mississippi

Mississippi rifles : weapons of Mississippians in Mexico

Ironclads and torpedoes : weapons on the water in Civil War Mississippi

Siege guns and sabers : weapons on the land in Civil War Mississippi

Rifles, bows, and guns : weapons of Mississippi hunters and private citizens

Training camps and military mobilization : weapons of Mississippi during the two world wars

Firebombs and ropes : weapons of terror in Mississippi

Ships, aircraft, and artillery : weapons of Mississippi's post World War II military-industrial complex

Nuclear testing : weapons of the atomic age in Mississippi.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-57936-3

9786612579363

1-60473-452-3

OCLC:

645937952