{"product_id":"a-right-to-bear-arms-isbn-9781944466251","title":"A Right to Bear Arms?","description":"This  collection of essays explores the way history itself has become a  contested element within the national legal debate about firearms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The  debate over the Second Amendment has unveiled new and useful information  about the history of guns and their possession and meaning in the  United States of America. History itself has become contested ground in  the debate about firearms and in the interpretation of the Second  Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Specifically this  collection of essays gives special attention to the important and often  overlooked dimension of the applications of history in the law. These  essays illustrate the complexity of the firearms debate, the relation  between law and behavior, and the role that historical knowledge plays  in contemporary debates over law and policy. Wide-ranging and  stimulating The Right to Bear Arms is bound to captivate both historians  and casual readers alike.\u003cb\u003ePART I. GUNS AND FIREARMS OWNERSHIP IN SEVENTEENTH- AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND AND AMERICA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIntroduction to Part I\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1.\u003c\/b\u003e The Right to Bear Arms in English and Irish Historical Context\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTim Harris \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2.\u003c\/b\u003e Who Had Guns in Eighteenth-Century Britain? \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePriya Satia \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3.\u003c\/b\u003e Firearms Ownership and Militias in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England and America\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKevin M. Sweeney \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4.\u003c\/b\u003e Limits on Armed Travel under Anglo-American Law: Change and Continuity over the Constitutional \u003ci\u003eLongue Durée\u003c\/i\u003e, 1688–1868 \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSaul Cornell \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5.\u003c\/b\u003e “You Never Dreamt of a Poysoned Bullet”: “Forbidden” Ammunition from the Sixteenth Century to the Present\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJonathan S. Ferguson \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e6.\u003c\/b\u003e Why Guns Are and Are Not the Problem: The Relationship between Guns and Homicide in American History\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRandolph Roth \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePART II. THE RIGHT TO ARMS AND THE ANGLO-AMERICAN TRADITION: HISTORICAL DEBATE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIntroduction to Part II\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e7.\u003c\/b\u003e English and American Gun Rights \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLois G. Schwoerer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e8.\u003c\/b\u003e The Right to Be Armed: The Common Law Legacy in England and America \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e     Joyce Lee Malcolm\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e9.\u003c\/b\u003e The “Reasonable Regulation” Right to Arms: The Gun-Rights Second Amendment before the Standard Model\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePatrick J. Charles \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePART III. HISTORY AND THE SUPREME COURT: OPPOSING LEGAL VIEWPOINTS \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIntroduction to Part III\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e10.\u003c\/b\u003e Going Armed: How Common Law Distinguishes the Peaceable Bearing of Arms from Carrying Weapons to Terrorize Others\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStephen P. Halbrook \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e11.\u003c\/b\u003e The Use and Misuse of History in Second Amendment Litigation\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMark Anthony Frassetto         \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Appendix I. District of Columbia et al., \u003ci\u003ePetitioners\u003c\/i\u003e, v. Dick Anthony Heller, \u003ci\u003eRespondent\u003c\/i\u003e – Brief of the Cato Institute and History Professor Joyce Lee Malcolm as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondent\u003cbr\u003e Appendix II. District of Columbia et al., \u003ci\u003ePetitioners\u003c\/i\u003e, v. Dick Anthony Heller, \u003ci\u003eRespondent – \u003c\/i\u003eBrief of Amici Curiae Jack N. Rakove, Saul Cornell, David T. Konig, William J. Novak, Lois G. Schwoerer et al. in Support of Petitioners \u003cbr\u003e BibliographyBARTON C HACKER is currently senior curator in armed forces history at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, Washington, DC. His publications include Astride Two Worlds: Technology and the American Civil War (2016), A Companion to Women's Military History (2012), Science in Uniform, Uniforms in Science: Historical Studies of American Military and Scientific Interactions (2007), American Military Technology (2006, 2007), and Materializing the Military (2005). JENNIFER TUCKER is Associate Professor of History and Science in Society at Wesleyan University and a specialist on British technology, law, photography, and media.  She is the author of Nature Exposed: Photography as Eyewitness in Victorian Science (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005) and Photography and Law (forthcoming). MARGARET VINING is curator of armed forces history in the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. and a specialist in American women's military history, military material culture, and the social sciences in the Great War. Her  publications include A Companion to Women's Military History (2012), Science in Uniform, Uniforms in Science: Historical Studies of American Military and Scientific Interactions (2007). and American Military Technology (2006, 2007).Historians and legal scholars examine Anglo-American traditions of firearms rights and ownership, and their relationship to societal changes over centuries","brand":"Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300647227621,"sku":"NP9781944466251","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781944466251.jpg?v=1767720758","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/a-right-to-bear-arms-isbn-9781944466251","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}