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03811aam a22005538i 4500 001 958F47B8C0CF11EE81BF3A115DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240201010027 007 t| 008 230414s2023 ncu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2023017164 020 $a 1469677245 020 $a 9781469677248 020 $a 1469674963 020 $a 9781469674964 040 $a NcU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCF $d ORX $d UKMGB $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HV7436 $b .M364 2023 082 00 $a 363.330973 $2 23/eng/20230607 084 $a POL011000 $a POL011000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a McKevitt, Andrew C., $e author. 245 10 $a Gun country : $b gun capitalism, culture, and control in Cold War America / $c Andrew C. McKevitt. 264 1 $a Chapel Hill : $b The University of North Carolina Press, $c 2023. 300 $a 320 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a The dumping ground -- Oswald's other gun -- This means war -- Civilization and guns -- The loophole -- Little old ladies in tennis shoes -- The mothers of today -- The Cold War's second amendment -- America's worst disease -- Global gun grabbers -- This American carnage. 520 $a "Just as World War II transformed the United States into a global military and economic superpower, so too did it forge the gun country America is today. After 1945, war-ravaged European nations possessed large surpluses of mass-produced weapons, and American entrepreneurs seized the opportunity to buy used munitions for pennies on the dollar and resell them stateside. A booming consumer market made cheap guns accessible to millions of Americans, and rates of gun ownership and violence began to climb. Andrew C. McKevitt tells the history of this gun boom through the dynamics of consumer capitalism and Cold War ideology, the combination of which resulted in a vast number of Americans arming themselves to the teeth and centering their political identity on their guns. When gun control legislation emerged in the 1960s, many Americans, accustomed to the unregulated postwar bounty of cheap guns and fearful of Soviet invasion, domestic subversion, and urban uprisings, fiercely challenged it. Meanwhile, gun control groups were diverted from their abolitionist roots toward a conciliatory, fundraising-focused strategy that struggled to limit the stockpiling of firearms. Gun Country recasts the story of guns in postwar America as one of Cold War and racial anxieties, unfettered capitalism, and exceptional violence that continues to haunt us to this day"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Gun control $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Firearms ownership $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Cold War $x Social aspects $z United States. 651 0 $a United States $x Economic conditions $y 20th century. 651 0 $a United States $x Social life and customs $y 20th century. 650 7 $a HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Economic history. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00901974 650 7 $a Firearms ownership. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00925642 650 7 $a Gun control. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00949382 650 7 $a Manners and customs. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01007815 650 7 $a Social aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01354981 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9781469674988 941 $a 2 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20240416012018.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20240201010208.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=958F47B8C0CF11EE81BF3A115DECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b JIDInitiate Another SILO Locator Search