Arming the World American Gun-Makers in the Gilded Age
Arming the world is the story of the development of American arms manufacturing and how ingenuity and inventiveness made the United States the major arms supplier to the world beginning in the mid-19th century
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Globe Pequot Press, The
2024
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- A Note about Money and Exchange Rates
- Brother Jonathan at the Crystal Palace
- Muskets
- Armory Practice
- The Machinery Committee Visits
- The Minié Ball
- Breech Loaders, Needle-Guns, and "Patent Arms"
- John Brown, Harper's Ferry, and the Beginning of War
- New Armies
- The North, the South, and the English
- Tooling Up
- The Breech Loader Prevails
- Center-Fire
- Trapdoors, Snuff Boxes, Rolling Blocks, and Peabodys
- Venturing Abroad
- England
- The Dreams of Ismail
- An Onion Dome
- Money to Be Had
- A Prince Visits
- Remington Triumphant
- The Sublime Porte
- Arming an Empire
- Plevna
- Losing the Peace
- Philadelphia, 1876
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index