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001 2013000829
003 DLC
005 20140626083102.0
008 130125s2013 enkab b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2013000829
020 $a9781409447528 (hardback : alkaline paper)
020 $z9781409447535 (ebook)
020 $z9781472402264 (ePUB)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
043 $ae-uk---
050 00 $aU897.G7$bC85 2013
082 00 $a683.40941/09034$223
245 02 $aA cultural history of firearms in the age of empire /$cedited by Karen Jones, Giacomo Macola, David Welch, University of Kent, UK.
264 1 $aFarnham, Surrey, England ;$aBurlington, Vermont :$bAshgate,$c[2013]
300 $axi, 317 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 285-305) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: 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.
650 0 $aFirearms$xSocial aspects$zGreat Britain$xHistory.
650 0 $aFirearms$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aSocial change$xHistory.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xColonies$xHistory.
651 0 $aUnited States$xTerritorial expansion.
650 0 $aImperialism$xHistory.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xHistory, Military.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory, Military.
700 1 $aJones, Karen R.,$d1972-
700 1 $aMacola, Giacomo.
700 1 $aWelch, David,$d1950-