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Weapons of Mississippi /

Mississippians have long found the need for an arsenal of interesting, lethal, and imaginative weapons. Native Americans, frontier outlaws, antebellum duelists, authorities and protestors in the civil rights struggle, and present-day hunters have used weapons to survive, to advance causes, or to lev...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dougherty, Kevin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Atlatls, bows and arrows, and striking weapons : weapons of the Mississippi Indians
  • Guns, steel, and forts : weapons of the Europeans in Mississippi
  • Militias, outlaws, and Kentucky rifles : weapons of territorial Mississippi
  • Dueling and slavery : weapons of antebellum Mississippi
  • Mississippi rifles : weapons of Mississippians in Mexico
  • Ironclads and torpedoes : weapons on the water in Civil War Mississippi
  • Siege guns and sabers : weapons on the land in Civil War Mississippi
  • Rifles, bows, and guns : weapons of Mississippi hunters and private citizens
  • Training camps and military mobilization : weapons of Mississippi during the two world wars
  • Firebombs and ropes : weapons of terror in Mississippi
  • Ships, aircraft, and artillery : weapons of Mississippi's post World War II military-industrial complex
  • Nuclear testing : weapons of the atomic age in Mississippi.