Weapons of Mississippi [[electronic resource] /] / Kevin Dougherty

• Autore: Dougherty Kevin
• Pubblicazione: Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (275 p.)
• Disciplina: 623.409762
• Soggetto topico: Weapons - Mississippi - History
• Soggetto geografico: Mississippi History; Mississippi History, Military
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Weapons of Mississippi
• ISBN: 1-282-57936-3; 9786612579363; 1-60473-452-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792305003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II