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A cultural history of firearms in the age of empire /

Other Authors: Jones, Karen R.,, Macola, Giacomo, Welch, David,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vermont : Ashgate, 2013
Subjects:
Firearms > Social aspects > Great Britain > History
Firearms > Social aspects > United States > History
Social change > History
Imperialism > History
Great Britain > Colonies > History
United States > Territorial expansion
Great Britain > History, Military
United States > History, Military
Table of Contents:
  • 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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