Karen Jones

A Cultural History of Firearms in the Age of Empire (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Macola, Giacomo

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Firearms have been studied by imperial historians mainly as means of human destruction and material production. Yet, as suggested by constructivist approaches to the history of technology, firearms have always been invested with a whole array of additional social meanings. By placing these latter at the centre of analysis, the essays presented in A Cultural History of Firearms in the Age of Empire extend the study of guns beyond the confines of military history and the examination of their impact on specific colonial encounters. By bringing cultural perspectives to bear on the subject, the contributors explore the densely interwoven relationships between firearms and broad processes of social change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317188490
• Artikelnr.: 44866307

Autorenporträt

Karen Jones is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Kent, and specializes in US and Environmental history. She has published widely on environmental issues and the American West specifically, and is currently completing a manuscript for the University of Colorado Press on hunting, nature and the nineteenth-century American West. Giacomo Macola is Senior Lecturer in African History at the University of Kent. The author of numerous articles on Zambian history, his latest monograph is entitled Liberal Nationalism in Central Africa: A Biography of Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula (2010). He is currently writing a social history of the gun in Central Africa to the early twentieth century. David Welch is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Centre for the Study of War, Propaganda and Society at the University of Kent. His books include Germany, Propaganda and Total War, 1914-1918 (2000) and The Third Reich: Politics and Propaganda (2002). He is the editor (with Jo Fox) of Justifying War: Propaganda, Politics and the Modern Age (2012). His latest book, Propaganda: Power and Persuasion, will be published in 2013 to coincide with opening of the British Library's exhibition of the same name.

Inhaltsangabe

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.