>From the Chronicle of Higher Education http://chronicle.com/prm/weekly/v50/i18/18a01501.htm
Small Press Republishes Controversial Book on America's Gun Culture By DAVID GLENN RELOADED: Michael A. Bellesiles is having his say again. A revised edition of Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture has been issued by Soft Skull Press, a small New York City imprint. The previous edition was withdrawn by Vintage Books in January 2003, after two scholarly committees found serious problems with Mr. Bellesiles's use of historical data. In the months before Vintage's cancellation, Mr. Bellesiles resigned from the faculty of Emory University, and Columbia University rescinded the 2001 Bancroft Prize in History, which had been awarded to the book. Soft Skull has also released Weighed in an Even Balance, a 74-page pamphlet in which Mr. Bellesiles responds to his critics. The press was founded in 1992, publishing editions of poetry by Lower East Side rock musicians, but it has widened its scope over the past 12 years to include writings on art and politics. ... Since his departure from Emory, Mr. Bellesiles has taught courses at two universities in Britain. Together with the historian Christopher Waldrep, he is editing a volume of primary documents on violence in American history, to be published by Oxford. The omitted part of the article deals with criticism and support of Bellesiles' work. I'd be glad to mail the entire article to you - just ask. -- --henry schaffer _______________________________________________ To post, send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof
