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|a A cultural history of firearms in the age of empire /
|c edited by Karen Jones, Giacomo Macola, David Welch
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|a Farnham, Surrey, England ;
|b Ashgate,
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|a Burlington, Vermont :
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|a xi, 317 p. :
|b ill., maps ;
|c 24 cm
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|a Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-305) and index
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|a Introduction: New Perspectives on Firearms in the Age of Empire / Karen Jones, Giacomo Macola and David Welch -- Part 1. Adopting Guns : Environment, Class and Gender on the Imperial Frontier -- Guns, Violence and Identity on the Trans-Appalachian American Frontier / Matthew C. Ward -- Guns, Masculinity and Marksmanship : Codes of Killing and Conservation in the Nineteenth-Century American West / Karen Jones -- Fishers of Men and Hunters of Lion : British Missionaries and Big Game Hunting in Colonial Africa / Jason Bruner -- Cockney Sportsmen? : Recreational Shooting in London and beyond, 1800-1870 / Matthew Cragoe -- Part 2. Resisting Guns : Edged Weapons and the Politics of Indigenous Honour -- "They Disdain Firearms" : The Relationship between Guns and the Ngoni of Eastern Zambia to the Early Twentieth Century / Giacomo Macola -- "Hardly a Place for a Nervous Old Gentleman to Take a Stroll" : Firearms and the Zulu during the Anglo-Zulu War / Jack Hogan -- Steel and Blood : For a Cultural History of Edged Weapons between the Late Nineteenth and the Early Twentieth Century / Gianluca Pastori -- Part 3. Controlling Guns : Gun Laws, Race and Citizenship -- The Battle of Dubai : Firearms on Britain's Arabian Frontier, 1906-1915 / Simon Ball -- "Give Him a Gun, NOW" : Soldiers but not quite Soldiers in South Africa's Second World War, 1939-1945 / Bill Nasson -- "Better Die Fighting against Injustice than to Die like a Dog" : African-Americans and Guns, 1866-1941 / Kevin Yuill -- Part 4. Celebrating Guns : Firearms in Popular and Military Cultures -- Retrospective Icon : The Martini-Henry / Ian F.W. Beckett -- "The Shooting of the Boers Was Extraordinary" : British Views of Boer Marksmanship in the Second Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902 / Spencer Jones -- Irish Paramilitarism and Gun Cultures, 1910-1921 / Timothy Bowman
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|a Firearms
|x Social aspects
|z Great Britain
|x History
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|a Firearms
|x Social aspects
|z United States
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|a Social change
|x History
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|a Imperialism
|x History
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|a Great Britain
|x Colonies
|x History
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|a United States
|x Territorial expansion
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|a Great Britain
|x History, Military
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|a United States
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