Cultural History of Firearms in the Age of Empire
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Cultural History of Firearms in the Age of Empire
Jones, Karen; Macola, Giacomo
Taylor & Francis Ltd
10/2024
330
Mole
9781032921921
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Contents: Introduction: new perspectives on firearms in the age of empire, Karen Jones, Giacomo Macola and David Welch; Part I Adopting Guns: Environment, Class and Gender on the Imperial Frontier: Guns, violence and identity on the trans-Appalchian American frontier, Matthew C. Ward; Guns, masculinity and marksmanship: codes of killing and conservation in the 19th-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 II 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 20th 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 19th and the early 20th centuries, Gianluca Pastori. Part III 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 IV 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 2nd Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, Spencer Jones; Irish paramilitarism and gun cultures, 1910-1921, Timothy Bowman; Bibliography; Index.
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aican;martial;race;gun;culture;rorkes;drift;irish;volunteers;game;Young Man;Howth Gun Running;Sheikh Jasim;Boer Marksmanship;India's North West Frontier;UVF Member;Kentucky Rifle;North Eastern Rhodesia;Martini Henry Rifles;Rorke's Drift;Irish Volunteers;Abu Klea;Mk II;Ordnance Select Committee;Bluegrass Region;IRA Unit;Edged Weapons;UVF Commander;UVF;Buck Fever;Game Trail;National Library;East Indies;Anglo-Boer War;Inv
Contents: Introduction: new perspectives on firearms in the age of empire, Karen Jones, Giacomo Macola and David Welch; Part I Adopting Guns: Environment, Class and Gender on the Imperial Frontier: Guns, violence and identity on the trans-Appalchian American frontier, Matthew C. Ward; Guns, masculinity and marksmanship: codes of killing and conservation in the 19th-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 II 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 20th 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 19th and the early 20th centuries, Gianluca Pastori. Part III 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 IV 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 2nd Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, Spencer Jones; Irish paramilitarism and gun cultures, 1910-1921, Timothy Bowman; Bibliography; Index.
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aican;martial;race;gun;culture;rorkes;drift;irish;volunteers;game;Young Man;Howth Gun Running;Sheikh Jasim;Boer Marksmanship;India's North West Frontier;UVF Member;Kentucky Rifle;North Eastern Rhodesia;Martini Henry Rifles;Rorke's Drift;Irish Volunteers;Abu Klea;Mk II;Ordnance Select Committee;Bluegrass Region;IRA Unit;Edged Weapons;UVF Commander;UVF;Buck Fever;Game Trail;National Library;East Indies;Anglo-Boer War;Inv
