The Firearm Revolution
From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires
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Catherine Fletcher's 'The Firearm Revolution' examines how early firearms transformed warfare, politics, and society from the 16th century onwards.
The book traces technological innovations like the wheel-lock pistol and situates gun development within broader changes such as state formation and imperial expansion.
Fletcher explores cultural responses to guns, including early gun-control laws and visual representations of firearms.
She also considers how firearms reshaped social hierarchies and notions of honor, assassination, and policing.
The work combines technical, political, and cultural history to argue that firearms were central to the making of the modern world.
The book traces technological innovations like the wheel-lock pistol and situates gun development within broader changes such as state formation and imperial expansion.
Fletcher explores cultural responses to guns, including early gun-control laws and visual representations of firearms.
She also considers how firearms reshaped social hierarchies and notions of honor, assassination, and policing.
The work combines technical, political, and cultural history to argue that firearms were central to the making of the modern world.
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Catherine Fletcher
Weapons, real and symbolic
