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Titre(s) : A cultural history of firearms in the age of empire [Texte imprimé] / edited by Karen Jones, Giacomo Macola, David Welch, University of Kent, UK
Publication : Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vermont : Ashgate, [2013]
Description matérielle : xi, 317 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Comprend : Introduction: 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.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-305) and index
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Jones, Karen R. (1972-....). Éditeur scientifique
Macola, Giacomo. Éditeur scientifique
Welch, David (1950-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Sapeurs-pompiers -- Société -- Grande-Bretagne -- 19e siècle
Impérialisme
Armes à feu -- Société
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781409447528 (hardback) (alkaline paper). - ISBN 1409447529 (hardback) (alkaline
paper). - ISBN 9781409447535 (erroné) (ebook). - ISBN 9781472402264 (erroné) (ePUB).
- ISBN 1409447537 (PDF ebook). - ISBN 9781409447535 (PDF ebook). - ISBN 147240226X
(ePub ebook). - ISBN 9781472402264 (ePub ebook)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb436539005
Notice n° :
FRBNF43653900
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