Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America - David J. Silverman - Books - Harvard University Press - 9780674737471 - October 10, 2016
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Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America


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David Silverman argues against the notion that Indians prized flintlock muskets more for their pyrotechnics than for their efficiency as tools of war. Native peoples fully recognized the potential of firearms to assist them in their struggles against colonial forces, and mostly against one another, as arms races erupted across North America.


360 pages, 28 halftones, 1 map

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released October 10, 2016
ISBN13 9780674737471
Publishers Harvard University Press
Pages 400
Dimensions 244 × 168 × 33 mm   ·   758 g
Language English  

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