A Most Pernicious Thing: Gun Trading and Native Culture in the Early Contact Period

Ch. 1. Contemporary Ethnohistory -- Ch. 2. The Gun In Europe -- Evolution And Deployment -- Ch. 3. Colonial Arms -- Ch. 4. The Native/european Gun Trade Before 1640 -- Ch. 5. The Weapons Trade Begins In Earnest -- Ch. 6. 1655 To The End Of King Philip's War 1676 -- Ch. 7. The Musket -- Operational Parameters -- Ch. 8. Conclusions And Hypotheses -- Appendix: Notes On Lethality. Brian J. Given. Includes Bibliographical References.