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A Most Pernicious Thing : Gun Trading and Native Warfare in the Early Contact Period
B.J. Given
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Table of Contents
Contents
Page 8-9
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Acknowledgments
Page 10-11
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Chapter One: Contemporary Ethnohistory
Page 12-23
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Chapter Two: The Gun in Europe - Evolution and Deployment
Page 24-43
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Chapter Three: Colonial Arms
Page 44-59
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Chapter Four: The Native/ European Gun Trade Before 1640
Page 60-67
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Chapter Five: The Weapons Trade Begins in Earnest
Page 68-91
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Chapter Six: 1655 to the End of King Philip's War 1676
Page 92-103
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Chapter Seven: The Musket - Operational Parameters
Page 104-121
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Chapter Eight: Conclusions and Hypotheses
Page 122-129
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Appendix: Notes on Lethality
Page 130-131
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Bibliography
Page 132-132
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Illustrations
Page 27-149
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-----1. Sketch of a matchlock
Page 27-39
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-----2. Sketch of a flintlock
Page 40-47
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-----3. Detail from Samuel de Champlain's sketch
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Title
A Most Pernicious Thing
Subtitle
Gun Trading and Native Warfare in the Early Contact Period
Contributors
B.J. Given
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Publication date
1994-01-01
Pages
138 p.
Print ISBN
9780886292225
eBook ISBN
9780773573864
LC Subjects
Indians of North America - History - Colonial period
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ca. 1600-1775.
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Indians of North America - History - 17th century.
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Indians of North America - Foreign influences.
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Firearms industry and trade - North America.
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