The Wrong Hands: Popular Weapons Manuals and Their Historic Challenges to a Democratic Society

by Ann Larabee

" A] valuable account ... The Wrong Hands brilliantly guides us through the] challenges to American democracy." -Howard P. Segal, Times Higher Education

Gun ownership rights are treated as sacred in America, but what happens when dissenters moved beyond firearm possession into the realm of high explosives? How should the state react? Ann Larabee's The Wrong Hands, a remarkable history of do-it-yourself weapons manuals from the late nineteenth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190201177
• ISBN13: 9780190201173
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.5"