A right to bear arms? : the contested role of history in contemporary debates on the Second Amendment / edited by Jennifer Tucker, Barton C. Hacker, and Margaret Vining.

Format:

• Book
• Government document

Contributor:

• Tucker, Jennifer, 1965- editor.
• Hacker, Barton C., 1935- editor.
• Vining, Margaret, editor.
• Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, publisher.

Series:

• Smithsonian contribution to knowledge
• A Smithsonian Contribution to Knowledge

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• United States. Constitution--2nd Amendment--History.
• Constitution (United States).
• Firearms--Law and legislation--United States.
• Firearms--Law and legislation.
• Gun control.
• History.
• United States.
• Gun control--United States--History.
• Gun control--Great Britain--History.
• Great Britain.

Genre:

• History.

Physical Description:

ix, 345 pages ; 27 cm.

Other Title:

Contested role of history in contemporary debates on the Second Amendment

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2019.

Summary:

"The history of firearm use and possession is a topic of considerable contemporary debate. Yet, what do we actually know about firearms in the Anglo-American tradition? How is the history of firearms taught and remembered? In recent years historians and legal scholars have examined different threads of the densely interwoven relationships between firearms and American culture and society. This history stretches back to 14th-century England and includes locations as diverse as Puritan Massachusetts and 19th-century Dodge City. Rather than assume a static, unchanging relationship to firearms, historians and legal scholars have shown that this history has been closely related to the broader processes of social change that transformed American society from an early modern pre-industrial culture governed by a powerful monarch to a multi-cultural industrial democracy. The book addresses aspects of the current state of historical scholarship on firearms; offers a rare, bipartisan view of the significant breadth of the current state of historical scholarship on firearms history; and includes views of legal practitioners with divergent interpretations of the current meaning of the Second Amendment."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

• Guns and firearms ownership in seventeenth and eighteenth-century england and america
• The right to arms and the anglo-american tradition : historical debate
• History and the supreme court : opposing legal viewpoints.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-333) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Right to bear arms?

ISBN:

• 9781944466251
• 1944466258

OCLC:

1078971878