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Looks at the design and site location of American armories, and argues that they were influenced by a fear of class warfare.

Focusing on the day-to-day operations of the U.S. armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, from 1798 to 1861, this book shows what the "new technology" of mechanized

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