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5 volumes: volume 1 Texto: xx+607 pages with frontispiece, portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, maps and plates; volume 2 Documentos: 552 pages; volume 3 Vida de Ercilla: 337 pages with … More...

5 volumes: volume 1 Texto: xx+607 pages with frontispiece, portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, maps and plates; volume 2 Documentos: 552 pages; volume 3 Vida de Ercilla: 337 pages with portraits, illustrations and index; volumes 4-5 Illustrations: 512 pages with facsimile titles to the first publications; 559 pages with facsimile signatures, plates and index. Folio (15" x 10 3/4") with original wrappers bound in to cloth binding. Compiled and arranged by Jose Toribio Medina. First edition.La Araucana is an epic poem in Spanish about the Spanish conquest of Chile, by Alonso de Ercilla; it is also known in English as The Araucaniad. It was considered the national epic of the Kingdom of Chile and one of the most important works of the Spanish Golden Age (Siglo de Oro). The poem consists of 37 cantos that are distributed across the poem's three parts. The first part was published in 1569; the second part appeared in 1578, when it was published with the first part; the third part was published with the first and second parts in 1589. The poem shows Ercilla to be a master of the octava real, the complicated stanza in which many other Renaissance epics in Castilian were written. A difficult eight-line unit of 11-syllable verses that are linked by a tight rhyme scheme, the octava real was a challenge few poets met. It had been adapted from Italian only in the 16th century, and it produces resonant, serious-sounding verse that is appropriate to epic themes. The work describes the initial phase of the Arauco War which was born as a Spanish conquests attempt, not at all comparable in importance to those of Hernán Cortés, who helped conquer the Aztec empire, and Francisco Pizarro, who initiated the overthrow the Inca empire. Contrary to the epic conventions of the time, however, Ercilla placed the lesser conquests of the Spanish in Chile at the core of his poem, because the author was a participant in the conquest and the story is based on his experiences there. On scraps of paper in the lulls of fighting, Ercilla jotted down versified octaves about the events of the war and his own part in it. These stanzas he later gathered together and augmented in number to form his epic. It was the first poem of its kind written by a participant in the course of the events narrated and the first to immortalize the beginnings of a modern country. In the minds of the Chilean people La Araucana is a kind of Iliad that exalts the heroism, pride, and contempt of pain and death of the legendary Araucanian leaders and makes them national heroes today. Thus we see Ercilla appealing to the concept of the "noble savage," which has its origins in classical authors and took on a new lease of life in the renaissance - c.f. Montaigne's essay Des Canibales, and was destined to have wide literary currency in European literature two centuries later. He had, in fact, created a historical poem of the war in Chile which immediately inspired many imitations.La Araucana is deliberately literary and includes fantastical elements reminiscent of medieval stories of chivalry. The narrator is a participant in the story, at the time a new development for Spanish literature. Influences include Orlando furioso by Ludovico Ariosto. Also features extended description of the natural landscape. La Araucana's successesand weaknessesas a poem stem from the uneasy coexistence of characters and situations drawn from Classical sources (primarily Virgil and Lucan, both translated into Spanish in the 16th century) and Italian Renaissance poets (Ludovico Ariosto and Torquato Tasso) with material derived from the actions of contemporary Spaniards and Araucanians. The mixture of Classical and Araucanian motifs in La Araucana often strikes the modern reader as unusual, but Ercilla's turning native peoples into ancient Greeks, Romans, or Carthaginians was a common practice of his time. For Ercilla, the Araucanians were noble and braveonly lacking, as their Classical counterparts did, the Christian faith. Caupolicán, the Indian warrior and chieftain who is the protagonist of Ercilla's poem, has a panoply of Classical heroes behind him. His valour and nobility give La Araucana grandeur, as does the poem's exaltation of the vanquished: the defeated Araucanians are the champions in this poem, which was written by one of the victors, a Spaniard. Ercilla's depiction of Caupolicán elevates La Araucana above the poem's structural defects and prosaic moments, which occur toward the end when Ercilla follows Tasso too closely and the narrative strays from the author's lived experience. Ercilla, the poet-soldier, eventually emerges as the true hero of his own poem, and he is the figure that gives the poem unity and strength. The story is considered to be the first or one of the first works of literature in the New World (cf. Cabeza de Vaca's NaufragiosShipwrecked or Castaways) for its fantastical/religious elements, it is arguable whether that is a "traveler's account" or actual literature; and Bernal Díaz del Castillo's Historia verdadera de la conquista de Nueva España (The Conquest of New Spain). La Araucana's more dramatic moments also became a source of plays. But the Renaissance epic is not a genre that has, as a whole, endured well, and today Ercilla is little known and La Araucana is rarely read except by specialists and students of Spanish and Latin American literatures, and of course in Chile, where it is subject of special attention in the elementary schools education both in language and history. La Araucana makes Chile the only American country that was founded under the lights of an epic poem. Condition:Bound in red cloth with original wrappers bound in. Volume one first 15 pages closed tear at heal repaired, back page fore edge repaired. A very good set., Imprenta elzeviriana, 1910-1918, 3, [Carmel, Calif, 1930. Vintage gelatin silver print, bust portrait in profile. Signed in pencil ("Johan Hagemeyer, Carmel") on the mount. 1 vols. 21.5 x 16.5 cm. (8-1/2 x 6-1/2 inches). Matted, with photographer's stamp on verso of mount. Vintage gelatin silver print, bust portrait in profile. Signed in pencil ("Johan Hagemeyer, Carmel") on the mount. 1 vols. 21.5 x 16.5 cm. (8-1/2 x 6-1/2 inches). Charles Erskine Scott Wood (1852-1944) was a writer, poet, soldier, corporate lawyer, associate of Clarence Darrow, and a lover of books. He was a founder of Portland's Public Library and the Portland Art Museum, self-proclaimed anarchist, atheist, regular contributor to radical journals of the day, and the lover of the famous suffragist, author, and activist, Sara Bard Field. As Wood's wife would not grant him a divorce, he and Field settled in San Francisco, and later in Los Gatos, where their home was a creative center for writers, artists and political activists in the Bay area. According to THE BANCROFT LIBRARY'S on line "Guide to the Johan Hagemeyer Photograph Collection": "In late 1916, just prior to [Hagemeyer's] return to California - and despite having had little photographic experience - Hagemeyer visited Stieglitz's 291 salon in New York City. The two developed an immediate rapport, and the meeting proved to be decisive for Hagemeyer. "We talked," Hagemeyer later recalled, "and he practically, by way of speaking, made me follow photography. I had already gone overboard for it" (OHT 22). "Back in California, Hagemeyer first apprenticed with a Berkeley-based commercial portrait photographer named McCullagh. Soon afterwards he moved south to Pasadena and in early 1918 met Edward Weston, already by then an accomplished photographer based in Tropico (now Glendale). The two took an immediate liking to each other and formed a friendship and working partnership that was of mutual benefit: Weston opened his home and studio to the upstart Hagemeyer, and Hagemeyer introduced the relatively unschooled Weston to new worlds of intellectual and aesthetic learning. The two would have a profound influence on each others' artistic development for years to come. (Arch. [see essays by Lorenz and Schaefer]) "Hagemeyer's talent developed rapidly and by the early 1920s he was exhibiting his work in many important photographic salons and garnering much popular and critical acclaim. After moving to San Francisco at the end of World War One, Hagemeyer soon discovered the intellectual and artistic colony of Carmel-by-the-Sea. In 1923 he established his first studio in Carmel and would remain anchored there for over 20 years. In 1924 he established the town's first art gallery - based out of his studio - where he exhibited the works of local painters, sculptors and photographers and hosted very popular musical performances. Shortly thereafter Hagemeyer opened a second studio in San Francisco, whose clientele could be rivaled by that of Carmel only during the smaller town's summer vacation season. In 1927, he was appointed staff photographer of the artistic/literary magazine The San Franciscan ..., 1930, 0, New York, New York, U.S.A.: New York Univ Pr. New. 1999. Hardcover. 0814718795 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, -- 517 pages; clean and crisp, tight and bright pages, with no writing or markings to the text. -- TABLE OF CONTENTS: Pt. I The Rise of Gun Culture in America Introduction: Guns Made Us Free - Now What? * A Independent Yeomen, Enterprising Manufacturers, and Manifest Destiny * 1 The Origins of Gun Culture in the United States, 1760-1865 * 2 Guns, Gun Culture, and the Peddling of Dreams * 3 The Cowboy Subculture * 4 "Another Branch of Manly Sport": American Rifle Games, 1840-1900 * B Ambivalence and Gun Culture * 5 Guns, Politics, and Public Policy * 6 The Impact of Agenda Conflict on Policy Formulation and Implementation: The Case of Gun Control * 7 A Loaded Question: What Is It about Americans and Guns? * 8 When the Time Comes to Give Up a Firearm * 9 Americans Love Their Guns but Fear Violence * 10 The Party of Gun-Haters * Pt. II The War over Guns * Introduction: Numbers Don't Count * A Pro-Gun * 11 Self-Defense: The Right and the Deterrent * 12 Confessions of a Former Gun Control Supporter * 13 A Nation of Cowards * 14 Self-Defense: A Primary Civil Right * 15 The Second Amendment: America's First Freedom * B Anti-Gun * 16 Statement of Sarah Brady * 17 Violence in America: A Public Health Emergency * 18 Firearms and Assault: "Guns Don't Kill People, People Kill People" * 19 Loaded Guns in the Home Analysis of a National Random Survey of Gun Owners * 20 Political Snipers: How the NRA Exploited Loopholes and Waged a Stealth Campaign against the Democrats * Pt. III As American as Apple Pie: Guns as a Cultural Battleground * Introduction: On the Cultural Battlefield * A Guns as a Way of Life - Sort Of * 21 Self-Transformation in Combat and the Pleasures of Killing * 22 Violence and Honor in the Southern United States * 23 The Great Bambi War: Tocquevillians versus Keynesians in an Upstate New York County * B The Breakdown of Civil Society * 24 The Crisis of Public Order * 25 Crime and Community * 26 The Incidence of Defensive Firearm Use by U. S. Crime Victims, 1987 through 1990 * 27 Does Allowing Law-Abiding Citizens to Carry Concealed Handguns Save Lives? * 28 Should You Own a Gun? * 29 Americans Losing Trust in Each Other and Institutions * C Who Will Protect Us? Minorities and Guns * 30 Arms and the Woman: A Feminist Reappraisal * 31 Guns Are the Tools by Which We Forge Our Liberty * 32 Gun Control in America: A History of Discrimination against the Poor and Minorities * 33 Talk at Temple Beth Shir Shalom: Friday, April 30, 1993 * D When Government Is the Enemy * 34 Apocalypse Now? * 35 They've Had Enough * 36 Author's Call to Arms Gets Answer * 37 The Anti-Enviro Connection * Pt. IV Living with Guns - Seeking Middle Ground in the Battlefield * Introduction: Can We Live with Guns? * 38 America's Only Realistic Option: Promoting Responsible Gun Ownership * 39 What Are the Alternatives? * 40 Lawsuit Aims at Gun Industry * 41 Crime Fighting's About-Face * 42 Second Thoughts on the Second Amendment * 43 Ten Essential Observations on Guns in America * Works Cited * Suggested Readings * Contributors. -- DESCRIPTION: Library Journal: "A trio of academics with expertise ranging from American culture to public policy administration have compiled this collection of scholarly and insightful essays tracing the position of firearms in our society. The uniqueness of the American Colonial and Revolutionary experience and the rugged nature of the American frontier combined to foster an attitude about guns and a prevalence of firearms unmatched by other Western industrialized nations. The problems posed by this historical legacy as it collides with our modern, more urban, and more civilized society are fully explored. Collectively, these essays point to a common conclusion: guns are here to stay. Even though the need for an armed citizenry has disappeared, the framers of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights worded the Second Amendment in a deliberately vague manner so as to allow for a happy medium that provides for a modicum of governmental control and regulation over firearms without infringing on the individual liberties that gun ownership was supposed to protect. These essays are carefully researched and documented and yet written in a clear and lucid manner that could benefit either a college or general audience. " -Philip Y. Blue, New York State Supreme Court Criminal Branch Law Lib. , New York -- with a bonus offer-- ., New York Univ Pr, 1999, 6<

ISBN: 9780814718797

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: New York Univ Pr. New. 1999. Hardcover. 0814718795 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, -- 517 pages; clean and crisp, tight and bright pages, with no writing or markings to the text. -- TABLE OF CONTENTS: Pt. I The Rise of Gun Culture in America Introduction: Guns Made Us Free - Now What? * A Independent Yeomen, Enterprising Manufacturers, and Manifest Destiny * 1 The Origins of Gun Culture in the United States, 1760-1865 * 2 Guns, Gun Culture, and the Peddling of Dreams * 3 The Cowboy Subculture * 4 "Another Branch of Manly Sport": American Rifle Games, 1840-1900 * B Ambivalence and Gun Culture * 5 Guns, Politics, and Public Policy * 6 The Impact of Agenda Conflict on Policy Formulation and Implementation: The Case of Gun Control * 7 A Loaded Question: What Is It about Americans and Guns? * 8 When the Time Comes to Give Up a Firearm * 9 Americans Love Their Guns but Fear Violence * 10 The Party of Gun-Haters * Pt. II The War over Guns * Introduction: Numbers Don't Count * A Pro-Gun * 11 Self-Defense: The Right and the Deterrent * 12 Confessions of a Former Gun Control Supporter * 13 A Nation of Cowards * 14 Self-Defense: A Primary Civil Right * 15 The Second Amendment: America's First Freedom * B Anti-Gun * 16 Statement of Sarah Brady * 17 Violence in America: A Public Health Emergency * 18 Firearms and Assault: "Guns Don't Kill People, People Kill People" * 19 Loaded Guns in the Home Analysis of a National Random Survey of Gun Owners * 20 Political Snipers: How the NRA Exploited Loopholes and Waged a Stealth Campaign against the Democrats * Pt. III As American as Apple Pie: Guns as a Cultural Battleground * Introduction: On the Cultural Battlefield * A Guns as a Way of Life - Sort Of * 21 Self-Transformation in Combat and the Pleasures of Killing * 22 Violence and Honor in the Southern United States * 23 The Great Bambi War: Tocquevillians versus Keynesians in an Upstate New York County * B The Breakdown of Civil Society * 24 The Crisis of Public Order * 25 Crime and Community * 26 The Incidence of Defensive Firearm Use by U. S. Crime Victims, 1987 through 1990 * 27 Does Allowing Law-Abiding Citizens to Carry Concealed Handguns Save Lives? * 28 Should You Own a Gun? * 29 Americans Losing Trust in Each Other and Institutions * C Who Will Protect Us? Minorities and Guns * 30 Arms and the Woman: A Feminist Reappraisal * 31 Guns Are the Tools by Which We Forge Our Liberty * 32 Gun Control in America: A History of Discrimination against the Poor and Minorities * 33 Talk at Temple Beth Shir Shalom: Friday, April 30, 1993 * D When Government Is the Enemy * 34 Apocalypse Now? * 35 They've Had Enough * 36 Author's Call to Arms Gets Answer * 37 The Anti-Enviro Connection * Pt. IV Living with Guns - Seeking Middle Ground in the Battlefield * Introduction: Can We Live with Guns? * 38 America's Only Realistic Option: Promoting Responsible Gun Ownership * 39 What Are the Alternatives? * 40 Lawsuit Aims at Gun Industry * 41 Crime Fighting's About-Face * 42 Second Thoughts on the Second Amendment * 43 Ten Essential Observations on Guns in America * Works Cited * Suggested Readings * Contributors. -- DESCRIPTION: Library Journal: "A trio of academics with expertise ranging from American culture to public policy administration have compiled this collection of scholarly and insightful essays tracing the position of firearms in our society. The uniqueness of the American Colonial and Revolutionary experience and the rugged nature of the American frontier combined to foster an attitude about guns and a prevalence of firearms unmatched by other Western industrialized nations. The problems posed by this historical legacy as it collides with our modern, more urban, and more civilized society are fully explored. Collectively, these essays point to a common conclusion: guns are here to stay. Even though the need for an armed citizenry has disappeared, the framers of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights worded the Second Amendment in a deliberately vague manner so as to allow for a happy medium that provides for a modicum of governmental control and regulation over firearms without infringing on the individual liberties that gun ownership was supposed to protect. These essays are carefully researched and documented and yet written in a clear and lucid manner that could benefit either a college or general audience. " -Philip Y. Blue, New York State Supreme Court Criminal Branch Law Lib. , New York -- with a bonus offer-- ., New York Univ Pr, 1999, 6<

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: New York Univ Pr. New. 1999. Hardcover. 0814718795 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, -- 517 pages; clean and crisp, tight and bright pages, with no writing or markings to the text. -- TABLE OF CONTENTS: Pt. I The Rise of Gun Culture in America Introduction: Guns Made Us Free - Now What? * A Independent Yeomen, Enterprising Manufacturers, and Manifest Destiny * 1 The Origins of Gun Culture in the United States, 1760-1865 * 2 Guns, Gun Culture, and the Peddling of Dreams * 3 The Cowboy Subculture * 4 "Another Branch of Manly Sport": American Rifle Games, 1840-1900 * B Ambivalence and Gun Culture * 5 Guns, Politics, and Public Policy * 6 The Impact of Agenda Conflict on Policy Formulation and Implementation: The Case of Gun Control * 7 A Loaded Question: What Is It about Americans and Guns? * 8 When the Time Comes to Give Up a Firearm * 9 Americans Love Their Guns but Fear Violence * 10 The Party of Gun-Haters * Pt. II The War over Guns * Introduction: Numbers Don't Count * A Pro-Gun * 11 Self-Defense: The Right and the Deterrent * 12 Confessions of a Former Gun Control Supporter * 13 A Nation of Cowards * 14 Self-Defense: A Primary Civil Right * 15 The Second Amendment: America's First Freedom * B Anti-Gun * 16 Statement of Sarah Brady * 17 Violence in America: A Public Health Emergency * 18 Firearms and Assault: "Guns Don't Kill People, People Kill People" * 19 Loaded Guns in the Home Analysis of a National Random Survey of Gun Owners * 20 Political Snipers: How the NRA Exploited Loopholes and Waged a Stealth Campaign against the Democrats * Pt. III As American as Apple Pie: Guns as a Cultural Battleground * Introduction: On the Cultural Battlefield * A Guns as a Way of Life - Sort Of * 21 Self-Transformation in Combat and the Pleasures of Killing * 22 Violence and Honor in the Southern United States * 23 The Great Bambi War: Tocquevillians versus Keynesians in an Upstate New York County * B The Breakdown of Civil Society * 24 The Crisis of Public Order * 25 Crime and Community * 26 The Incidence of Defensive Firearm Use by U. S. Crime Victims, 1987 through 1990 * 27 Does Allowing Law-Abiding Citizens to Carry Concealed Handguns Save Lives? * 28 Should You Own a Gun? * 29 Americans Losing Trust in Each Other and Institutions * C Who Will Protect Us? Minorities and Guns * 30 Arms and the Woman: A Feminist Reappraisal * 31 Guns Are the Tools by Which We Forge Our Liberty * 32 Gun Control in America: A History of Discrimination against the Poor and Minorities * 33 Talk at Temple Beth Shir Shalom: Friday, April 30, 1993 * D When Government Is the Enemy * 34 Apocalypse Now? * 35 They've Had Enough * 36 Author's Call to Arms Gets Answer * 37 The Anti-Enviro Connection * Pt. IV Living with Guns - Seeking Middle Ground in the Battlefield * Introduction: Can We Live with Guns? * 38 America's Only Realistic Option: Promoting Responsible Gun Ownership * 39 What Are the Alternatives? * 40 Lawsuit Aims at Gun Industry * 41 Crime Fighting's About-Face * 42 Second Thoughts on the Second Amendment * 43 Ten Essential Observations on Guns in America * Works Cited * Suggested Readings * Contributors. -- DESCRIPTION: Library Journal: "A trio of academics with expertise ranging from American culture to public policy administration have compiled this collection of scholarly and insightful essays tracing the position of firearms in our society. The uniqueness of the American Colonial and Revolutionary experience and the rugged nature of the American frontier combined to foster an attitude about guns and a prevalence of firearms unmatched by other Western industrialized nations. The problems posed by this historical legacy as it collides with our modern, more urban, and more civilized society are fully explored. Collectively, these essays point to a common conclusion: guns are here to stay. Even though the need for an armed citizenry has disappeared, the framers of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights worded the Second Amendment in a deliberately vague manner so as to allow for a happy medium that provides for a modicum of governmental control and regulation over firearms without infringing on the individual liberties that gun ownership was supposed to protect. These essays are carefully researched and documented and yet written in a clear and lucid manner that could benefit either a college or general audience. " -Philip Y. Blue, New York State Supreme Court Criminal Branch Law Lib. , New York -- with a bonus offer ., New York Univ Pr, 1999, 6<

ISBN: 9780814718797

New York, New York, U.S.A.: New York Univ Pr. New. 1999. Hardcover. 0814718795 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILA… More...

New York, New York, U.S.A.: New York Univ Pr. New. 1999. Hardcover. 0814718795 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, -- 517 pages; clean and crisp, tight and bright pages, with no writing or markings to the text. -- TABLE OF CONTENTS: Pt. I The Rise of Gun Culture in America Introduction: Guns Made Us Free - Now What? * A Independent Yeomen, Enterprising Manufacturers, and Manifest Destiny * 1 The Origins of Gun Culture in the United States, 1760-1865 * 2 Guns, Gun Culture, and the Peddling of Dreams * 3 The Cowboy Subculture * 4 "Another Branch of Manly Sport": American Rifle Games, 1840-1900 * B Ambivalence and Gun Culture * 5 Guns, Politics, and Public Policy * 6 The Impact of Agenda Conflict on Policy Formulation and Implementation: The Case of Gun Control * 7 A Loaded Question: What Is It about Americans and Guns? * 8 When the Time Comes to Give Up a Firearm * 9 Americans Love Their Guns but Fear Violence * 10 The Party of Gun-Haters * Pt. II The War over Guns * Introduction: Numbers Don't Count * A Pro-Gun * 11 Self-Defense: The Right and the Deterrent * 12 Confessions of a Former Gun Control Supporter * 13 A Nation of Cowards * 14 Self-Defense: A Primary Civil Right * 15 The Second Amendment: America's First Freedom * B Anti-Gun * 16 Statement of Sarah Brady * 17 Violence in America: A Public Health Emergency * 18 Firearms and Assault: "Guns Don't Kill People, People Kill People" * 19 Loaded Guns in the Home Analysis of a National Random Survey of Gun Owners * 20 Political Snipers: How the NRA Exploited Loopholes and Waged a Stealth Campaign against the Democrats * Pt. III As American as Apple Pie: Guns as a Cultural Battleground * Introduction: On the Cultural Battlefield * A Guns as a Way of Life - Sort Of * 21 Self-Transformation in Combat and the Pleasures of Killing * 22 Violence and Honor in the Southern United States * 23 The Great Bambi War: Tocquevillians versus Keynesians in an Upstate New York County * B The Breakdown of Civil Society * 24 The Crisis of Public Order * 25 Crime and Community * 26 The Incidence of Defensive Firearm Use by U. S. Crime Victims, 1987 through 1990 * 27 Does Allowing Law-Abiding Citizens to Carry Concealed Handguns Save Lives? * 28 Should You Own a Gun? * 29 Americans Losing Trust in Each Other and Institutions * C Who Will Protect Us? Minorities and Guns * 30 Arms and the Woman: A Feminist Reappraisal * 31 Guns Are the Tools by Which We Forge Our Liberty * 32 Gun Control in America: A History of Discrimination against the Poor and Minorities * 33 Talk at Temple Beth Shir Shalom: Friday, April 30, 1993 * D When Government Is the Enemy * 34 Apocalypse Now? * 35 They've Had Enough * 36 Author's Call to Arms Gets Answer * 37 The Anti-Enviro Connection * Pt. IV Living with Guns - Seeking Middle Ground in the Battlefield * Introduction: Can We Live with Guns? * 38 America's Only Realistic Option: Promoting Responsible Gun Ownership * 39 What Are the Alternatives? * 40 Lawsuit Aims at Gun Industry * 41 Crime Fighting's About-Face * 42 Second Thoughts on the Second Amendment * 43 Ten Essential Observations on Guns in America * Works Cited * Suggested Readings * Contributors. -- DESCRIPTION: Library Journal: "A trio of academics with expertise ranging from American culture to public policy administration have compiled this collection of scholarly and insightful essays tracing the position of firearms in our society. The uniqueness of the American Colonial and Revolutionary experience and the rugged nature of the American frontier combined to foster an attitude about guns and a prevalence of firearms unmatched by other Western industrialized nations. The problems posed by this historical legacy as it collides with our modern, more urban, and more civilized society are fully explored. Collectively, these essays point to a common conclusion: guns are here to stay. Even though the need for an armed citizenry has disappeared, the framers of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights worded the Second Amendment in a deliberately vague manner so as to allow for a happy medium that provides for a modicum of governmental control and regulation over firearms without infringing on the individual liberties that gun ownership was supposed to protect. These essays are carefully researched and documented and yet written in a clear and lucid manner that could benefit either a college or general audience. " -Philip Y. Blue, New York State Supreme Court Criminal Branch Law Lib. , New York -- with a bonus offer ., New York Univ Pr, 1999, 6<