Bøger af Joan Burbick

A thorough account of the beliefs that millions of ordinary Americans hold about guns. Examining the USA from the floor of a gun show, scholar and gun-owner Joan Burbick uncovers a powerful conservative ideology that attempts to place gun ownership at the centre of American democracy.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Talks about politics/current affairs.

In this study Joan Burbick interprets nineteenth-century narratives of health in order to expose the conflicts underlying the creation of a national culture in America. The book confronts what Burbick sees as a certain fundamental uneasiness about democracy in America.