Description
Very Good+ dust jacket, tan illustrated with map of colonial America, light edge-wear. A mylar dust jacket has been added. The near fine binding is brown cloth over boars, one small spot on front cover. Pictorial end papers. Black-and-white illustrations. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The book measures 11.2″ tall x 9.0″ wide.
First Edition
About the book (from the dust jacket)
Firearms have been an integral part of technological evolution since the early fourteenth century. A distinct product of Old World technology- firearms performed a significant role in the astonishingly rapid conquest, colonization and development of the New World. Nowhere was that performance more crucial or decisive than in the vast wilderness of North America.
Firearms in Colonial America explore and investigate vistas too long ignored by many historians, presenting a broad and Penetrating historical analysis that reveals the distinctive contributions made by firearms manufacturing in various fields of technology and industrialization. le is also a book about people, for the dramatic role of the firearm as an efficient, effective tool emerging during man’s continuing struggle for survival cannot be minimized.
Of particular interest to firearms aficionados and collectors, Firearm in Colonial America is equally an important tool for the professional archaeologist, historian, and specialist. The breach of the museum author’s interest is shown in the following topics that he covers: firearms manufacturing techniques-gunpowder technology–hand-and-machine tool evolution–the armory as the progenitor of the factory system –the evolution of military tactics-the impact of firearms on Native American culture-the paramount economic significance of firearms on the North American fur trade–the exemplary role of the gunsmith as a craftsman and technician whose skills provided the means to conduct the wilderness and whose inventive proclivity inspired many technological achievements -the role of the firearm in the evolution of the “American system’ of manufacture and a variety of other aspects spanning more than three centuries of technological evolution.
Firearms in Colonial America is illustrated with more than three hundred photographs, including ten maps, and the thoroughly documented text is provided with complementary appendices and tables in addition to a comprehensive bibliography and index.
About the author (from the dust jacket)
M.L. Brown is a graduate of the Ordnance School, Marine Corps Schools, Quantico, Virginia, and is a former infantry weapons armorer. He is a member of the American Association for State and Local History, American Defense Preparedness Association, Florida Historical Society, and a life member of the National Rifle Association of America.
His authoritative articles on history and firearms technology have appeared in The American Rifleman, Argosy, Gun Digest, Guns & Ammo, Gun World, Ordnance, and other periodicals, and he has twice received the Townsend Whelen Award for firearms literature presented by Gun Digest. Born in Old Bridge, New Jersey, he has resided in Tampa, Florida, since 19 where he is widely known as a firearms consultant and identification specialist the influence of firearms on frontier expansion–the interlocking relationship of firearms manufacture with chemical, metallurgical, and industrial evolution–the exemplary role of the gunsmith as a craftsman and technician whose skills provided the means to conduct the wilderness and whose inventive proclivity inspired many technological achievements-the role of the firearm in the evolution of the “American system’ of manufacture and a variety of other aspects spanning more than three centuries of technological evolution
Firearms in Colonial America is illustrated with more than three hundred photographs, including ten maps, and the thoroughly documented text is provided with complementary appendices and tables in addition to a comprehensive bibliography and index.
