A Cultural History of Firearms in the Age of Empire

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Cover Contents List of Figures, Maps and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: New Perspectives on Firearms in the Age of Empire Part I Adopting Guns: Environment, Class and Gender on the Imperial Frontier 1 Guns, Violence and Identity on the Trans-Appalachian American Frontier 2 Guns, Masculinity and Marksmanship: Codes of Killing and Conservation in the Nineteenth-Century American West 3 Fishers of Men and Hunters of Lion: British Missionaries and Big Game Hunting in Colonial Africa 4 Cockney Sportsmen? Recreational Shooting in London and Beyond, 1800–1870 Part II Resisting Guns: Edged Weapons and the Politics of Indigenous Honour 5 ‘They Disdain Firearms’: The Relationship between Guns and the Ngoni of Eastern Zambia to the Early Twentieth Century 6 ‘Hardly a Place for a Nervous Old Gentleman to Take a Stroll’: Firearms and the Zulu during the Anglo-Zulu War 7 Steel and Blood: For a Cultural History of Edged Weapons between the Late Nineteenth and the Early Twentieth Centuries Part III Controlling Guns: Gun Laws, Race and Citizenship 8 The Battle of Dubai: Firearms on Britain’s Arabian Frontier, 1906–1915 9 ‘Give Him a Gun, NOW’: Soldiers but Not Quite Soldiers in South Africa’s Second World War, 1939–1945 10 ‘Better Die Fighting against Injustice than to Die Like a Dog’: African-Americans and Guns, 1866–1941 Part IV Celebrating Guns: Firearms in Popular and Military Cultures 11 Retrospective Icon: The Martini-Henry 12 ‘The Shooting of the Boers was Extraordinary’: British Views of Boer Marksmanship in the Second Anglo-Boer War, 1899–1902 13 Irish Paramilitarism and Gun Cultures, 1910–1921 Bibliography Index