Michael A. Bellesiles Quotes
Colonial Americans were famously well fed, based on their farming, not their hunting.
Actually, despite thr myth, guns in Erly America were so expensive that only a minority could afford them.
Michael A. Bellesiles, Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture, 2000
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Seaweed was been eaten by the Japanese for thousands of years. Most other people do not view seaweed as an editable food. Yet it is quite nutritious, and Smith is breeding new strains that are even more so, very much as we have done with fruits ad vegetables on land. His view is that with Global Warming, over-fishing of the oceans, and higher and higher costs of food as we now know it, seaweed will become a major food staple throughs the world. Actually, Campbell’s Soup and many other companies producing canned and packaged foods, has been using MSG extracted from seaweed for years, It is a major flavor enhancer. But at this time they do not use the more nutritious leaves as the Japanese do, Smith argues that this will change as there is almost unlimited ocean farming “land” as seaweed can grow in 3 dimensions and requires much less labor, fertilizer and pesticides than land farming for equal amounts of healthy food.
While this was somewhat hyperbolic at the time, it became true during the century.
For "The pen is mightier than the sword," see Bulwer-Lytton
Historically, this quotation shows the desperate condition of the 1863 food supply in the Confederacy. The most profitable crops were cotton and tobacco. However, Davis and other Southern leaders had to urge patriotic Southerners to abandon those crops in favor of foodstuffs and fodder for the military and their horses. Some did but many did not.
Most of us have little idea of many of the benefits that have come from the native, indigenous population of the Americas. And most assume that it was only Europe that interacted with the “New World”. China however obtained the sweet potato from South America and its productivity and nutritional value benefitted those areas of China not ideal for rice cultivation.
The spelling was the original the in legislation passed by the Virginia Assembly Gunsmiths were ery few at the time. The South Carolina Province had only as single gunsmith and he was not very skilled. Planting tobacco was a much more lucrative endeavour, so many of the few gunsmiths abandned that trade for tobacco farming.
The image of early America where the new nation’s men were all skilled marksmen with a rifle was a myth as this quotation shows. It took much more skill to maintain and use a rifle as opposed to a musket. There were few gun makers in America at the time, and it was very difficult to rifle a steel barrel. As a result, rifles were quite expensive and few could afford them.
Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture is a discredited 2000 book by historian Michael A. Bellesiles about American gun culture, an expansion of a 1996 article he published in the Journal of American History. Bellesiles, then a professor at Emory University, used fabricated research to argue that during the early period of US history, guns were uncommon during peacetime and that a culture of gun ownership did not arise until the mid-nineteenth century.
