A Cultural History of Firearms in the Age of Empire

Abstract

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: a They disdain firearmsa (TM): the relationship between guns and the Ngoni of eastern Zambia to the early 20th century, Giacomo Macola a Hardly a place for a nervous old gentleman to take a strolla (TM) 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: battle of Dubai: firearms on Britaina (TM)s Arabian frontier, 1906-1915, Simon Ball a Give him a gun, NOWa (TM): soldiers but not quite soldiers in South Africaa (TM)s Second World War, 1939-1945, Bill Nasson a Better die fighting against injustice than to die like a doga (TM): 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 a The shooting of the Boers was extraordinarya (TM): 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.