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Forging Insights: Indian Agency Blacksmiths of the American Frontier [PDF]

, 2020
Following the War of 1812, the United States government sought to more directly deal with the Native tribes in the American interior. The establishment of Indian agency blacksmith shops was one significant component of this endeavor.
Novey, Adam G
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Understanding the Smith & Wesson M&P15: Semiautomatic Assault Rifle Used in the Aurora, Colorado Mass Murder [PDF]

, 2012
This report discusses the history and profit motive behind Smith & Wesson's introduction into the civilian market of its M&P15 semiautomatic assault rifles in 2006. It then explains the history, distinguishing features, and lethal capabilities of assault

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Detecting Intrusion: Electronic Security, Sensoriality, and Spatial Relations in Kingston, Jamaica

City &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Kingston, Jamaica, decades of high crime coupled with the failure of the state to effectively provide public security have given rise to a booming private security industry. In this landscape, middle‐ and upper‐class residents have turned to electronic security technologies to fortify their homes against the threat of a home intrusion.
Kimberley D. McKinson
wiley   +1 more source

“Pistol Fever”: Regulating Revolvers in Late-Nineteenth-Century Canada [PDF]

, 2009
This paper examines the debates over the regulation of pistols in Canada from confederation to the passage of nation’s first Criminal Code in 1892. It demonstrates that gun regulation has long been an important and contentious issue in Canada.
Brown, Blake
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Leviathans and Liberation: Did Whaling Contribute to the Decline of Slavery?

International Social Science Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We test the hypothesis slavery started declining in the United States not due to fossil fuel‐driven industrialization but the exploitation of the bioenergy reserves of the world's largest animals. We predict the population in slavery in US states from 1790 to 1840 as a function of the recorded whaling harvest.
Topher L. McDougal, Austin Choi‐Fitzpatrick   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Civil War II Novel: From Speculation to Preparation

The Journal of Popular Culture, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article describes radical rightwing dystopian fictions set in near‐future versions of the USA, in which the nature of liberal society, combined with some disastrous catalyst, triggers armed resistance by authoritarian, libertarian, and/or secessionist forces, leading to a Second Civil War.
Geoff Boucher, Helen Young, Rachel Fetherston   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interest Groups and Intra‐Party Conflict on Scored Votes

Legislative Studies Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While inter‐party conflicts and polarization are central for understanding policymaking, salient intra‐party conflicts remain. We explore one lens into these conflicts—interest groups scoring votes at odds with party leaders. We examine how often and under what conditions party‐aligned interest groups oppose the positions of party leadership ...
Laurel Harbridge‐Yong, Warren Snead
wiley   +1 more source

Dispersing blackbirds and starlings from objectionable roost sites [PDF]

, 1980
Frightening devices and other methods of dispersing roosting blackbirds and starlings are described along with the techniques for their proper application.
Mott, Donald F.
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Understanding the Co‐Provision of Disaster‐Related Services in the United States: Universities and Colleges as Community Stakeholders

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A “whole community” strategy is central to disaster management and community resilience in the United States. However, the specific means by which community‐level stakeholders in the private and nonprofit sectors function as partners with government agencies in providing key disaster‐related services are currently underexamined.
Suyang Yu, Brian J. Gerber
wiley   +1 more source

Rights: Facts, Evidence, or Beliefs?

Ratio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper considers whether rights hold due to the facts, the best available evidence to people, or people's actual beliefs. While there has been much discussion of this question in the context of what we ought to do, there is less discussion from a rights standpoint.
Joseph Bowen
wiley   +1 more source