Gun Control and National Defence in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Denmark
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Gun Control and National Defence in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Denmark. / Lind, Gunner.
I: War in History, Bind 28, Nr. 3, 2021, s. 485–503.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Gun Control and National Defence in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Denmark
AU - Lind, Gunner
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Light firearms were a challenge for governments during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They not only were necessary in war but also posed a risk of poaching, crimes, and rebellion. Early modern gun control is often seen through the lens of social and political factors. This article highlights how the needs of war could constrain the desire to control. In the Danish case, military need completely reversed a trend towards less demand for popular armament and more restrictions on the guns of ‘common men’. This happened despite the existence of a large regular army and despite an aristocratic political system.
AB - Light firearms were a challenge for governments during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They not only were necessary in war but also posed a risk of poaching, crimes, and rebellion. Early modern gun control is often seen through the lens of social and political factors. This article highlights how the needs of war could constrain the desire to control. In the Danish case, military need completely reversed a trend towards less demand for popular armament and more restrictions on the guns of ‘common men’. This happened despite the existence of a large regular army and despite an aristocratic political system.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - historie
KW - history
KW - våbenkontrol
KW - gun control
U2 - 10.1177/0968344519896814
DO - 10.1177/0968344519896814
M3 - Journal article
VL - 28
SP - 485
EP - 503
JO - War in History
JF - War in History
SN - 0968-3445
IS - 3
ER -
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