Open Fire
Understanding Global Gun Cultures
Guns are everywhere: three quarters of a billion guns - from pistols to machine guns - exist in the world today. And guns are everything: a hard-won symbol of individual freedom, an index of crime and disorder, a whole industry legitimately contributing to an economy, a popular piece of sports equipment, and an object of desire, endlessly duplicated by toys, video games and films. Open Fire presents a broad analysis of the social, cultural and political significance of firearms and the worlds they create. Illustrated with a wide range of case material - from North and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa - Open Fire explores and questions t…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-84788-327-8
- EAN: 9781847883278
- Produktnummer: 17038237
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 787 KB
- Abbildungen: images have been removed from the e-book
Über den Autor
Charles Fruehling Springwood is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies at Illinois Wesleyan University.
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