Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America

by Andrew C. McKevitt

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469677245
• ISBN13: 9781469677248
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"