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Thundersticks

Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America

David J. Silverman

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$29.95 • £26.95 • €27.95

ISBN 9780674737471

Publication Date: 10/10/2016

400 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

28 halftones, 1 map

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David J. Silverman is Professor of History at George Washington University.

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On the early American history podcast Ben Franklin’s World, listen to David Silverman describe how Native Americans used guns to shape their lives
At Aeon, read Professor Silverman’s overview of the “indigenous arms race” that altered the course of North American history
Listen to Silverman explain his concept of the “gun frontier” on the podcast New Books on the American West

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