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9780674016088

Guns and Violence

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  • ISBN13:

    9780674016088

  • ISBN10:

    0674016084

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-10-25
  • Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr

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Summary

This timely and thought-provoking book takes a crucial step in illuminating the actual relationship between guns and violence in modern society.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(13)
The Middle Ages: Laws, Outlaws, and Crimes of Violence
14(20)
The Tudor-Stuart Centuries: Revolution in Church, State, and Armaments
34(30)
The Eighteenth Century: ``Fruitful in the Inventions of Wickedness''
64(26)
The Nineteenth Century: ``An Era of Rare Success''
90(43)
1900--1953: The Government Takes Control
133(31)
1953--2000: Only the Criminals Have the Guns
164(53)
More Guns More Crime or More Guns Less Crime? The American Case
217(34)
The Right Equation
251(6)
Appendix: Firearm Licences in England and Wales 257(4)
Notes 261(68)
Index 329

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