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A Right To Bear arms?:the Contested Role Of History In Contemporary Debates On the Second amendment
[Hardback - 2019]
barton c. hacker
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Category: Law
Sub-category: Law
Additional Category: World History - North American History
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press | ISBN: 9781944466251 | Pages: 356
Shipping Weight: 1.089 | Dimensions: 7.25 x .94 x 10.29 inches

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This collection of essays explores the way history itself has become a contested element within the national legal debate about firearms.

The debate over the Second Amendment has unveiled new and useful information about the history of guns and their possession and meaning in the United States of America. History itself has become contested ground in the debate about firearms and in the interpretation of the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Specifically this collection of essays gives special attention to the important and often overlooked dimension of the applications of history in the law. These essays illustrate the complexity of the firearms debate, the relation between law and behavior, and the role that historical knowledge plays in contemporary debates over law and policy. Wide-ranging and stimulating The Right to Bear Arms is bound to captivate both historians and casual readers alike.

About the Author

Margaret Vining, who co-edited and contributed to this book, died before it appeared in print, but her inspiration and hard work made it possible. She served as the Curator of Armed Forces History at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History. Her publications include Companion to Women’s Military History (Brill, 2012), American Military Technology (Johns Hopkins, 2007), and Science in Uniform, Uniforms in Science (Scarecrow, 2007).

Barton C. Hacker is the Senior Curator of Armed Forces History at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History. He has edited and authored numerous books including Astride Two Worlds: Technology and the American Civil War[MG1]  (Smithsonian Scholarly Press, 2016), Companion to Women’s Military History (Brill, 2012), American Military Technology (Johns Hopkins, 2007),  Science in Uniform, Uniforms in Science (Scarecrow, 2007), and Materializing the Military (Science Museum, 2005).

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