Armed Citizens : The Road from Ancient Rome to the Second Amendment /
"This book traces the history of debates about citizen-soldiery, militias, and arms control over two thousand years, illustrating for a general readership what eighteenth-century militias were and why the founding fathers believed them to be "necessary to the security of a free state."...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2020.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Résumé: | "This book traces the history of debates about citizen-soldiery, militias, and arms control over two thousand years, illustrating for a general readership what eighteenth-century militias were and why the founding fathers believed them to be "necessary to the security of a free state." It focuses on ten events, from antiquity to the Age of Revolutions, in which ideas about citizenship and the comparative benefits of militias versus standing/professional armies evolved together"-- |
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Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (288 pages). |
ISBN: | 9780813944623 |