Shoot the State: Guns, Freedom, and Domination in the Americas, 1774-1934 …rival internal polities, and fratricidal struggles over internal order and the nature of capitalist development. Almost always, these trials involved collective violence with firearms. Yet across the Americas, guns were…
“True Equity Means Everyone’s Life Has Equal Value”: A Conversation with Shani Buggs …rates of gun violence, firearms are still far too prevalent, including firearms that were illegally possessed, illegally sold, and trafficked into these communities prior to March of 2020. We don’t…
A Military History of East Africa in the Nineteenth Century …weaponry (and a special emerging subtheme is the impact of the early East African firearms trade), long-distance commerce, and imperialism. Nonetheless, internal factors, such as modifications to age-class structures and…
The Diffusion of Lethal and Nonlethal Violence in Gang Networks …suggests, most often occur on the street or other public spaces. What’s more, gang violence is more likely to involve the use of firearms and involve a greater number of…
Ways of War: Toward a Global Military History …ratio of firearms to traditional weapons. Countries that achieve too much military success may tend in the long run to become vulnerable to adversaries from regions where warfare is more…
What Do Historians Have to Say About Violence? …venerated their elders and deferred to their religious leaders. This was also a world with few deadly weapons; medieval farmers, for instance, did not possess firearms. Yet, for all of…
Serotonin and Impulsive Aggression: Not So Fast …the kinds and efficacy of means of informal and formal social control, and availability of firearms. A reasonable response to this assertion would be to suggest that individual differences in…
Creating the Illusion of Impending Death: Armed Robbers in Action …smaller firearms because they were more easily concealed and simpler to handle. I like the 32 because it’s like a 38, small, easy and accessible. And it will knock [the…
“Social Disruptions Reveal Who We Are”: A Conversation with Jeffrey Butts …off and two months later not have a place to sleep is just disgusting. Other countries have figured this out. Those are two easy things: fixing income inequities and firearms….
“There Are Clearly Spaces Where Law Enforcement Does Not Belong”: A Conversation with Tracie Keesee …have a country that has a tremendous amount of firearms. You also have people who have been locked down. People have lost their jobs and they don’t have health care…