Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America

by David J. Silverman

Book Overview

The adoption of firearms by American Indians between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries marked a turning point in the history of North America's indigenous peoples--a cultural earthquake so profound, says David Silverman, that its impact has yet to be adequately measured. Thundersticks reframes our understanding of Indians' historical relationship with guns, arguing against the notion that they prized these weapons more for the pyrotechnic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674737474
• ISBN13: 9780674737471
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"