The dum-dum bullet : a lethal history, 1850-1950 /
"In this innovative history of small arms, Maartje Abbenhuis demonstrates how the invention of ready-touse rifle cartridges in the industrial era made death accessible to all, with revolutionary results. She explains how their lethality influenced perceptions of gun violence, and how these idea...
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New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2026.
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Table of Contents:
- The dum-dum bullet in history
- Angels of death: The violence of Minié bullets in the 1850s and 1860s
- A question of life itself: Exploding projectiles and the St Petersburg Declaration of
- Unseen death: 'Man-stopping' bullets and everyday violence before
- Bullets that do not kill: Explaining the dum-dum 'hysteria' of the 1890s
- For every atrocity, a dum-dum, 1900-
- Epilogue: The dum-dum bullet's enduring fascination.